Mental Health (Hansard, 8 February 1961)

Dr. Johnson
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Minister for Science, what progress the Medical Research Council is making in its full-scale review of mental health research announced on 16th February, 1959; what expert advisory committees it has appointed; who are the members of such committees; and what specific subject they are studying.

§ Mr. Powell:
The Medical Research Council concluded its full-scale review of mental health research early in 1959, and its proposals for promoting further work in this field were announced by my predecessor in the debate on the Mental Health Bill and reported in the OFFICIAL REPORT for 6th May, 1959 (cols. 406/7). Two new committees were set up, one in clinical psychiatry and the other on the epidemiology of mental disorders; their membership is as follows:
Clinical Psychiatry
Professor Sir George Pickering, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R S. (Chairman).
E. J. M. Bowlby, M.D.
Professor A. L. Cochrane M.B.E., M.B., D.P.H.
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D. Curran, M.B., F.R.C.P., D.P.M.
Professor G. R. Hargreaves, O.B.E., M.Sc, M.R.C.S.
Professor A. Bradford Hill. C.B.E.. D.Sc. F. R. S
Denis Hill, M.B., F.R.C.P., D.P.M.
Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis, M.D., F.RC.P.
The Hon. W. S. Maclay, C.B., O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.M.
A. B. Monro, M.D., Ph.D., D.P.M
W. Linford Rees, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.M.
J. A. Fraser Roberts, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.C.P.
Professor T. Ferguson Rodger, M.B., F.R.C.P., F.R.F.P.S., D.P.M.
Professor M. Roth, M.D., F.R.C.P.
E. T. O. Slater, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Professor E. J. Wayne, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.
Professor O. L. Zangwill, M.A.
P. Sainsbury, M.D., D.P.M. (Secretary).
Epidemiology of Mental Disorders
Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis, M.D., F.R.C.P. (Chairman).
Professor G. M. Carstairs, M.B.. M.R.C.P.E., D.P.M.
Professor A. L. Cochrane, M.B.E., M.B., D.P.H.
Professor R. W. Firth, Ph.D.
Professor D. V. Glass, Ph.D.
W. D. P. Logan, M.D., Ph.D., D.P.H.
Professor W. M. Millar, M.D., Dip Psych.E.
Professor J N. Morris, M.A., F.R.C.P., D.P.H.. D.C.H.
Professor Sir George Pickering, M.D, F.R.C.P., F.R.S.
Professor D. D. Reid. M.D., D.Sc., M.R.C.P.
P. Sainsbury, M.D., D.P.M.
Professor C. H. Stuart-Harris, M.D., F.R.C.P.
J. Tizzard, Ph.D.
K. Rawnsley, M.B., M.R.C.P., D.P.M. (Secretary).
Each committee has appointed working parties to study special aspeots of their field, such as the psychopathic personality, the value of drugs in psychiatry assessed by clinical trials, and the use of national statistics of mental disorder.

Dr. Johnson
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Minister for Science, what percentage of total funds available to the Medical Research Council for research has been spent on research on mental health in each of the last five years.

§ Mr. Powell:
Of the total funds available to the Council over the last five years, the percentage spent on mental health research is as follows:

1956–57 2. 3 per cent.

1957–58 1. 8 per cent.

1958–59 3. 8 per cent.

1959–60 4. 4 per cent.

1960–61 4. 7 per cent.

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1956–57	2. 3 per cent.
1957–58	1. 8 per cent.
1958–59	3. 8 per cent.
1959–60	4. 4 per cent.
1960–61	4. 7 per cent.