State Action in Mental Health, A Summary of Financial Legal and Administrative Developments in State Mental Health Programs, December 1955

(1955) State Action in Mental Health, A Summary of Financial Legal and Administrative Developments in State Mental Health Programs, December 1955. University of Iowa

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Abstract

This compilation of developments in mental health during 1955 was prepared to give a partial measure of the degree to which recent conferences, studies, reports and recommendations have resulted in legislative action. It provides some comparison among the states of relative progress in various aspects of their mental health programs. The major portion of the compilation deals with finances and compares appropriations for the current and past fiscal periods. The figures, however, should be used with considerable caution. While the data are comparable for the two fiscal periods within a given state, they are in no way valid for interstate comparisons. They very widely in terminology, in items included in the budgets, and in the details of the figures reported. A tabular presentation of the data, therefore, would be misleading if it attempted to compare appropriations among the states either in total or in part.