RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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period. These courses are of two months' duration
and are held twice a year. They include
lectures on the principles and prSctice of neurology
and demonstrations on the anatomy,
pathology, and physiology of the nervous system.
The primary object of the staff at Queen
Square is to provide increased facilities for teaching
and research. The existing hospital building
is barely large enough to house the 200 bed patients
and the outpatient service, which has an
annual attendance of more than fifty thousand.
There is little space available for laboratories,
library, and lecture rooms. The new building and
the research endowment will not only furnish increased
accommodations for patients but will
emphasize the value of research and teaching.
Maudsley Hospital, London
Development of Research In Psychiatry
A grant of $45,000 was made to the London
County Council toward the support of research
in psychiatry over the three-year period beginning
July 1, 1935, at Maudsley Hospital, the
central institution of the London County Council
Asylums.
Maudsley Hospital has 200 beds and an outpatient
clinic in which about two thousand new
cases are received annually. The
hospitalized
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