Letters "AN

to

the Editor

INVESTIGATION INTO THE CINEMATOGRAPH DETERIORATION IN BEHAVIOUR"

AND

Dear Sir,

Your correspondents rightly raise the question of more information. and details were left out for reasons of space, but some 70 foolscap Pages of notes were made during this investigation.

Tables

Definition of misbehaviour will vary from hospital to hospital. that reason, comparison was made in the same hospital under the

administration

of the

For same

patients before and after the beginning of the Cambridge House Hospital, misbehaviour was that behaviour considered sufficiently serious by the Charge Nurses, all men of many years' experience, to be entered in the day and night report books. Although this definition gives no information to those who do not know this hospital, the comparison of behaviour before and after the beginning of

film entertainments.

same

At

the cinematograph entertainments was reliable in the sense that standards yere approximately constant during the two periods. Abnormal noise by ttself was certainly considered a form of misbehaviour. It disturbed the other patients. The effect of each type of film shown is lews, interest and feature films were shown results of the

analysis

of the feature films

not at

were

possible to determine, as performance. The

every

inconclusive.

I

agree entirely with your correspondents in their refusal to accept the thesis that "all films have an influence that is bad." It may well be that only some films affected the patients adversely, others having no, or a good, effect. The facts that the behaviour of 18 patients remained stationary and that 34 showed improvement in their behaviour showed that many were not adversely affected.

The conclusion was worded were not excluded.

so

that

causes

Yours

Litfield House, Clifton Down,

Bristol,

8.

other than the entertainments

faithfully, G.

de

M. Rudolf.

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