01-25 ...... Recent Legislation Relative to the State Hospital Service. 12 Statistical Studies of the Insane for the Fiscal Year, 1914, 4. General Statistical Information Relating to the Insane and the Management of the State Hospitals.... 5. Movement of Patients in the State Hospitals During the Year Ending September 30, 1915, as reported by the Superin- 60 0372 THE STATE HOSPITAL QUARTERLY ANNOUNCEMENT For several years past the State Hospital Commission has issued a quarterly magazine known as the State Hospital Bulletin. This periodical served the double purpose of giving to the managers and staffs of the several State hospitals important information concerning the administration of the hospital service, and of publishing for the benefit of physicians and psychiatrists generally, results of the scientific researches made in the State hospitals and Psychiatric Institute. The Commission believes that the time has come to separate these two functions and has decided to issue two publications; one, the STATE HOSPITAL QUARTERLY, of which this is the initial number, and the other, The Psychiatric Bulletin, which will be prepared at the Psychiatric Institute. The STATE HOSPITAL QUARTERLY is to be a service journal and will publish the minutes of the quarterly conferences of the Commission with the managers and superintendents of the State hospitals, statistical data relating to the insane, news of the service, announcements of the Commission, and such other matters as the Commission may deem appropriate. The Psychiatric Bulletin is to be issued in January, April, July and October of each year and will be a scientific journal devoted exclusively to the advancement of psychiatry and the psychiatric work of the State hospitals. |