They were sent to various mental hospitals for treatment of their mental illnesses and if that was not successful were grieviously undermined by the social ineptitude of the lower socio-economic...
Mental illness, as we know it was seldom acknowledged in the 1940's unless it became unmanageable. It was a hidden disease. Psychoanalysis ca. Freud and Jung were popular as were frontal lobectomies...
The majority received no treatment as such, as it was still believed by many that "madness" was an affliction of the soul, rather than of the body or mind. However, attitudes were changing by this...