After-care Report of Epileptics following Colony Treatment

Abstract

Hitherto a difficulty in forming a just opinion as to the value of the colony treatment of epileptics has been the inability to keep trace of the patients after they have left the Colony. In connection with the Lingfield Colony (which has nearly 300 epileptic patients), an attempt has now been made to follow up, and obtain a report upon, those patients who have left the Colony during the last 4½ years. To this end a circular was sent to the different local authorities asking for their co-operation in this investigation, and thanks are due to them for their prompt response. The number of cases inquired into totalled 101. The number of reports actually received was 100, but 20 of these were blank, the patients having disappeared without leaving an address.

Social Stigma, Stress and Enforced Transition in Specialist Epilepsy Services 1905–1965

“…Advocates like Tylor Fox extensively studied this vulnerable period, campaigning for more social care for young people with epilepsy. 40 This may, in fact, be one of the central reasons why Lingfield's legacy lay in the creation of a charity specifically aimed at the rights and abilities of young people with epilepsy. 41 In the UK, the design of the colonies meant that young people were expected to stay for significantly longer.…”

Symptomatische infantile Polymyoklonie

“…Malaguzzi-Valeri [23], ]3erglund et al [3], Griffith [14], Dekker-Jonker [10], Keller u. Karelitz [18], Waleher u. Ross [30], Curden u. Chainberlin [8] beobaehteten diese Symptome bei der akuten eerebell/iren Ataxie im Kindesalter. Marimon u. Sandilands [24] beschrieben den Opsoklonus als seltenes Begleitsymptom bei Polioencephalitis, und Arthuis et al [1] sahen die Symptomatik bei der nieht paralytisehen ataktisehen Form der Poliomyelitis.…”