# Psychiatric care at Lund Mental Hospital, 1879–1931 - URL: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/so289 - Language: en - Last updated: not specified - Page title: Psychiatric care at Lund Mental Hospital, 1879–1931 | WCP 2026 Summary > Care at Lund Mental Hospital gradually improved after 1879, with reduced use of coercive care, shorter hospital stays, staff training, and an increase in the p… This page was translated automatically from Turkish. [Read the original](https://alisanburak.com/wcp-2026-posterler/so289) This page is an AI-assisted Turkish summary of the study presented at the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry. The study belongs to the presenting authors; please refer to the original source when citing it. SO289 Brief Oral Poster PresentationOtherHistorical archival study # Psychiatric care at Lund Mental Hospital, 1879–1931 PSYCHIATRIC CARE AT LUND MENTAL HOSPITAL 1879–1931. Presenter: Malin Appelquist Country: Sweden Institution: IKVL, Lund University Session: 3670 - PARALLEL SHORT ORAL POSTER SESSIONS: HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY Date: Fri, 25.09.2026 Care at Lund Mental Hospital gradually improved after 1879, with reduced use of coercive care, shorter hospital stays, staff training, and an increase in the proportion of patients discharged as recovered. The aim is to examine how the standard of care at Lund Mental Hospital, which opened in 1879 following Sweden's first mental health law of 1858, developed until the fourth mental health law came into force in 1931, what problems arose, and how they were addressed. The primary sources are inspection reports from the Royal Medical Board, the hospital's annual reports, and hospital registers from 1900 to 1930; these were supplemented by selected patient records and contemporary literature, and the complete cohort of 3,256 people admitted between 1900 and 1930 was analyzed using historical admission records. By 1900, the hospital had reached a capacity of 364 beds and was one of 12 psychiatric hospitals in Sweden; nationwide, the number of psychiatric beds rose from approximately 5,000 in 1900 to approximately 13,000 in 1930. Throughout the period, the use of coercive care declined, hospital stays became shorter, the number of patients treated increased, particularly in the 1920s, and the proportion discharged as recovered or improved rose; the graph in the poster shows that this proportion remained mostly between 50% and 60% from 1900 to 1930, while the median length of stay fell markedly over the same period. The introduction of compulsory training for attendants stabilized the workforce, the number of patients per attendant fell from approximately 12 to 4 between 1900 and 1930, and the number of registered nurses entering psychiatric care increased. Admissions were evenly distributed between women and men, with differences observed only in diagnostic distributions; the hospital actively adopted new treatments emerging in Europe, such as malaria therapy for general paresis (General Paralysis of the Insane, GPI). Barriers to improvement included financial constraints on the construction of new hospitals, shortages of trained staff, including physicians, and social stigma surrounding mental illness; physicians sought to reduce stigma by educating the public. In conclusion, psychiatric care during this period, as today, advanced through gradual improvements, with new challenges addressed as part of an ongoing process of evolution. [View the original poster](https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/2010) How to cite this study APA 7: Appelquist, M., et al. (2026, September 25). Psychiatric care at lund mental hospital 1879–1931 [Poster presentation]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026), Stockholm, Sweden. https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/2010 Vancouver: Appelquist M, et al. Psychiatric care at lund mental hospital 1879–1931 [poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026); 2026 Sep 23-26; Stockholm, Sweden. 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