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815)degree or less. The remaining ministrative and maintenancePsychiatrists accounted for34 per personnel.16 peradpro-hospitalization tal or Bronxwill be treated State Hospital.at MorrisaniaHospi-fessional patient-care cent; psychologists,staff; 1 1 perother cent;physicians, 5 per social workers, 17Of the pracmentalper cent; and registered nurses, 28 per cent. other patient-care staff, 14 per cent were licensed tical or vocational nurses, 9 per cent wereCOST OF ALCOHOLISM: Alcohol-related problems cost the U.S. economy an estimated $25 billion in 1 971, a $ 1 0 billion increase over the previous estimate. The figure was reported in the Second Report to Congress on Alcohol and Health from the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, andWelfare. The by largest single cost for health was $9.4 billion for ser-health workers per cent wereAbout 83with otherassociate-of-arts mental healthcent of thedegrees workers.total full-timelost vices.$8.3alcoholism,worked in public facilities, and of those, almost 60 per cent worked in state and county mental hospitals. The study included staffing data or estimates from all mental health facilities except free-standing day hospitals or other multiservice facilities. At the time of the survey, there were 324 state and county hospitals, 1 58 private psychiatric hospitals, 1 19 Veterans Administration hospitals offering mental health services, ters for 770 general hospitals with psychiatric and inpatient& PLACESor outpatient erally fundedservices, communitychildren,cenfed-centers.of ChildrenYOUTH CONFERENCE: Conference on Mentalwill be held in MexicoINTERNATIONAL Second Inter-Americanand YouthThe HealthAPPOINTMENTS: Jerome Jaffe, M.D., and Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., have joined the staff of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City. Dr. Jaffe, who served...