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A new Directory of Psychiatric Clinics in the United States is now available from the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1790 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. Price 50 cents. It lists the 688 community clinics in the United States and also state institutions, state government departments promoting mental hygiene, Veterans Administration Regional offices and hospitals, mental hygiene societies, family welfare societies, community welfare councils and veterans information centers. The following breakdown of clinics may be of interest to readers:
Omar M. Bradley, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, pointed out that, “Many veterans suffer what might be called a social disability in the interruption of their lives and in the impairment of their careers. If left unaided now, this type of veteran can stumble in a maze of readjustment and develop a difficult social scar.” As proof that the majority of veterans are making this adjustment successfully he reported that 8,000,000 veterans have already found their way into active employment and that while 1,500,000 veterans have applied for readjustment allowances, the average period in which such allowances are used is just seven weeks. (Six million veterans had little or no pre-war work experience.) General Bradley is of the opinion that the large majority of veterans use readjustment allowances as was intended, namely, to tide them over while they search for positions that will give them fair guarantee of permanent and satisfactory employment. General Bradley believes that, “By these payments during a critical period of readjustment we may be averting the far heavier costs that would accrue in 10 or 20 years from now if such payments had not been made. He also reported that 700,000 veterans are now taking training, 80 per cent of them in educational institutions and 20 per cent in apprentice work an