ABSTRACT
Development of the mental health services so far had been both divided and sporadic. The city of Oxford’s mental health scheme was said to be the finest in England for diagnosis and early treatment. The Warneford Hospital was a private non-profit-making hospital for ‘the educated classes’. The out-patient clinic at the Radcliffe Infirmary had been opened in 1918. Patients came to it readily, because it was situated in a general hospital. Educational work had been sponsored with some success by a few mental hospitals, where the staff had set themselves the task of integrating the hospital with the local community. The outbreak of war in September 1939 made the full implementation of the report impracticable for the time being, and brought a crop of special problems. In 1945, the clinic, which had been supported by voluntary subscriptions and public appeals, became part of the National Health Service.
