Commentary: Sir Arthur Mitchell--pioneer of psychiatric epidemiology and of community care.

He alsomade contributions in many other fields, fromMedical Meteorology to Archeology, and was aProfessor of Ancient History.A large part of Mitchell’s work was devoted to whatwe would now call psychiatric epidemiology and psy-chiatric care in the community. With respect to psy-chiatric epidemiology, Mitchell’s study of people withmental illness living in the community is describedhere, and his study of mortality rates among psychi-atric patients is in the reprint that precedes this com-mentary.

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