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Show BUT . . WHAT OF THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THE NATION? Mental and emotional illness fills half of the hospital beds. Look beyond the 050,000 persons in mental hospitals, the 230,000 treated in psychiatric offices and clinics. Read the daily papers and there find the true picture of America's No. 1 health problem: murders, suicides, delinquency, sex crimes, divorces, kidnapping, alcoholism. These tell the real story. In the headlines of the daily newspapers the actual story of the nation's mental health problem is revealed. |