Survey of Mental Illness in General Practice

Abstract

This survey of mental illness was carried out in 261 practices in Great Britain, largely by members and associates of the College of General Practitioners, with a population at risk of about a million persons. Some 9,000 patients qualified for inclusion in the survey, and this means in round figures that almost 1 % of the population was found to be mentally disabled. The practitioners who collected the cases were asked to assign their patients to one of seven groups. The group was considered to be more important than the actual diagnosis. The groups were as follows. © 1964, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.