RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES 97
of its recently completed study of statistics on
insane, epileptic, and mentally defective persons
admitted to certain hospitals of Massachusetts
between the years 1917 and 1933, and of the case
records of these patients. The study was carried
out during the years 1928 to 1934 with the support
first of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Memorial and later of The Rockefeller Foundation.
At least four volumes of data are to be
published. The first volume will present a broad
general picture of mental disease in Massachusetts,
based on analysis of more than 100,000
cases. The second will contain an intensive study
of the clinical manifestations of mental disease
in 20,000 patients. The third will be a general
survey of mental deficiency and epilepsy, compiled
from the case records of 10,000 mental defectives
and 5,000 epileptics. The fourth will deal
with the clinical manifestations associated with
mental deficiency in 3,200 persons admitted to
Wrentham State School.
Fellowships and Grants in Aid
The Foundation appropriated £90,000 in'1935
for fellowships in the medical sciences under its
own
administration. A grant of $45,000 was
made to the National Research Council for its
medical science fellowships during 1936-37, and
the Medical Research Council, London, received
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