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6 Most Queens Mental Cases Sent to Kings Most of Queens psychiatric r- Pjpjuijiijiiijpii nip in ii mi i patients are still being sent ito Kings County Hospital in iOAHf (Brooklyn because the 151- tr Vl 11 I i i II i i jI -j- iVJ-W a 11 betl psychiatric unit in the iam lUll Mini inew Elmhurst General Hospital can operate on only a limited scale. Hospitals De- jpartment officials revealed. 5 I LL-POWERr a 11 Is Islsxli? I OF BRAND NEW 1958 1 General ip Electric fl IPTr 1 20-inch i 20-inch The inability to find a sufficient number of staff psychiatrists ani psychiatric workers, which delayed the use of the psychiatric wards 13 months after the hospital's opening in March 1057, continues to limit this service for Queens residents, according to Dr. Isidore Firschein, medical superintendent. 61 Patients in 3 Months In three months since Queens' first psychiatric service in a.

municipal hospital opened last April. 01 in-patients have been cared for in two 12-bed wards, Firschein said. During the same period, approximately 31S female patients from Queens were sent to Kings County Hospital's psychiatric division, the Brooklyn city institution's records show. Asserting that the city is try-ins: to expand the Elmhurst Hospital's psychiatric service "as rapidly as ps-iMe." Firschein disclosed that three paid full-time psychiatrists were added to the of two last Tuesday and he hope' thi will enable two more war Is, with a of 30 beds, to 1 i Portage Reversible 3-Speed hiring the summer. ope ne.i I' SUCTION EQUAL TO CLEANERS I IMITCH 8 SELLING FOR UP TO $79.95 LIffillELJ 1 STOCK I MODEL W-6 The unit also has five full-time psychologists, but just one psychiatric social worker.

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Dr. A. J. Beavers, senior psychiatrist and assistant director, disclose I. "Full development of the hospital's psychiatric service for both in-patients and out-patients, is needed for Queens." he said.

The recent appointment of Dr. Leopold Bellack. nationally prominent in psychiatry, as new director of the psychiatric service will attract more psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric social workers to the staff and help -peed the new unit's expansion, Beavers predicted. Church Units Sponsor Fair Some 500 persons are expected to attend the annual "Puck's Fair and Smorgasbord" that the United Societies of St. Gertrude's Church of Edgemere will sponsor on its grounds and in the parish hall at 7 P.M.

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