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The Incidence of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Among a Hospital Population of Long-Stay Female Epileptics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. H. Margerison  and
D. W. Liddell
J. H. Margerison
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London
D. W. Liddell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College Hospital, London
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There are some 23,000 long-stay epileptic in-patients in Britain. Most of these patients are in hospitals for the mentally ill or subnormal or in independent colonies. There are, however, only two hospitals within the National Health Service which cater specifically for the long-term treatment of epilepsy, St. Faith's Hospital, Brentwood, for females, and St. David's, Edmonton, for males. This communication is concerned with the incidence of temporal lobe epilepsy among the long-stay female epileptics at St. Faith's.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 450 , September 1961 , pp. 909 - 920
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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