Planned uses of a statewide psychiatric register for aiding mental health in the community.

The traditional pattern of public psychiatric services of previous years is changing. In place of the mental hospital, isolated in function and separated in program planning from other community services, a comprehensive program is emerging. Psychiatric clinics, general hospitals and other newly developed forms of psychiatric service carry an increasing share of the psychiatric responsibility, and a variety of nonpsychiatric community agencies offers important services to, or on behalf of, the mentally ill.