ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on a course for the Diploma of Public Health. Dr. George Carpenter, one of the physicians of the North-Eastern Hospital, was just then starting the British Journal of Children's Diseases, and enlisted the author's services to devil for him. He was the medical officer of health for a small town in Kent—work for which he had no qualification and which in fact was performed by his sanitary inspector. Psychiatry at that time was at its lowest ebb in England, and no studies or observations were carried out in any of the mental hospitals. Paralyses and anaesthesia were to be seen in every hospital, and most infirmaries could produce patients with astasia-abusia who had been bedridden for perhaps twenty or thirty years. The only psychiatrists the author can recall in private practice were those who had retired from the position of superintendent at Bethlehem, successively Sir George Savage, T. H. Hyslop, and Sir Maurice Craig.
