[Diagnosis and psychiatric care.--First working report of the psychiatric outpatient hospital in the Steglitz Clinic (author's transl)].

The article begins with a review of the geographically unfavourable distribution of psychiatric ward beds in Berlin. This unfavourable distribution hampers therapeutic efforts. The authors describe and examine the work done in the Psychiatric Outpatient hospital which forms part of a university clinic in the Steglitz district of Berlin. 1517 case records are subjected to statistical evaluation. The article concludes with the demand for a new plan for distributing the psychiatric ward beds according to a more reasonable key based on subsectors in line with the requirements of the different districts of the city of Berlin.