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The present study aimed at investigating attitudes toward people who had formerly been patients of Tuberculosis (Tb), Mental Disease (MD) or Leprosy (Lep). Three scales were constructed for measuring attitudes toward cured patients of each disease. They consisted of 13 items, which were the same in wording except the name of the disease. In these scales, it was assumed that former patients were now completely recovered and not different from Qrdinary people intheir appearance. Three other scales, measuring knowledge about each disease, were also constructed. Fourty-four male and ninety-six female college students served as Ss. They answered thequestionnaire, including the 3 attitude scales and the 3 knowledge scales, and 2 other for measuring social attitude in general: the F-scale constructed by Adorno et al. and the Sly constructed by Gordon. The results were as follows: 1) Attitudes toward the cured patients were different between the 3 diseases. Ss showed considerably favorable attitudes toward the former patients of Tb, but were unfavorable toward MD and Lep. 2) Ss' attitudes toward the cured patients of the 3 diseases were highly correlated to each other. There was a common element in regard to the f avorableness-unf avorableness of attitudes among them. 3) Generally speaking, many of the Ss responded correctly to items of the knowledge scales. Especially, the proportion of correct respondents was large among items concerning Tb. 4) There were very low correlations between attitudes and knowledge of the corresponding disease. 5) The more authoritarian were their attitudes on the F-scale, the more unfavorable were the attitudes toward people who had recovered from the illness.

The present authors studied on the corrective measure in Likert technique in comparing the strength of psychological motive among various groups with different value systems.The principles of this corrective measure are as follows:1) Calculate the corrective coefficient (K).a: sum of the maximum weighting score which have been categorized for confirmation.b: sum of the maximum weighting score which have been categorized for negation.2) Correct the scoring rate (Crude Index: C.I.) by means of I. The crude Index for each person have been calculated by a'/b'.a' is the sum of obtaining score for each person who have been categolized for confirmation, and b' is the sum of obtaining score for each for negation.The Corrective Index (Cr. I.) can be obtained by a'/b'. E1/K.This corrective measure would make it easy to compare scores in various groups as shown in an example of Morale survey by Likert technique.

Reporting the present system and situation of “Health Counselling Unit” of the branch hospital of the University of Tokyo, the significance of the activity of health counselling unit in hospital was discussed.Regarding technique applied for health counselling carried out in the unit, directive as well as non-directive counselling seemed to be equally essential. About the management of health counselling, the referal systeur of counsellee to clinical consultation, medical social.: work, activity of preventive medicine etc should carefully be established, and close team approach among these referal units are extremely imporant.In addition to the health counselling, the unit is also active in home extension service of medical care. Through all cases concerned in this kind of service, it was thought that counselling toward the family of case is very important so as to make the service more effective.As a conclusion, the authors consider that every hospitalshould have health counselling unit as a part of health guidance unit, and that the health, guidance uuit also can offer home extension service of medical care in orderto establish comprehensive health care which is said to be a diserable type of health and medical care.