Hospitals Balk at Feeble Age Crisis in Public Care
A London Conference report cites Dr. Lawrence Kolb urging restraint in placing the chronically ill aged in public mental hospitals. He notes many feeble elders are admitted due to family neglect and lack of alternatives, urging better private homes and medical support to reduce institutional care. Hammer trial in Yokohama relates. Irvine Hammer convicted for murder of his Japanese wife.