Mental Health and Environment

Abstract

The setting for this social study was the planned outward movement of large numbers of postwar Londoners. Contrasted with the Majority who remained behind were those who moved to "out-county" housing estates, with good living accommodations but poor social planning; and others who moved to eight new towns around London, each with a socially planned community. Taylor and Chave wanted to learn whether removal to these new areas affected mental health; whether by building good communities, people could be prevented from becoming mentally ill; whether mental illness resulted from genetic and deepseated personal causes or from the immediate environment. The reader senses that these social investigators were disappointed in their findings, and would probably have had them otherwise, but the results are nevertheless intriguing. The authors discovered that about one third (30% to 35%) of each of the three groups, despite the marked differences in their living conditions, have what

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