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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Institution. | Religion. | Class of defective received. | Charges. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By contract. | Supplemental payments. | ||||||||
| Maintenance (a week). | Burials. | Outfits. | Maintenance (a week) | Burials. | Outfits. | ||||
| St. Joseph's Home, Sudbury, Suffolk | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females aged 16 to 20 | 11/6 | £6 | — | 6/- | — | — | |
| St. Mary's Home, Alton, Hants. | Church of England | Females over age 16 who might have had illegitimate children | 14/- | — | £5 | 2/6 | — | — | |
| St Michael's Convent, Streatham Common | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females | 22/6 | £5 | £5 | Reduction 1/6 | — | — | |
| St. Raphael's, Brentford | Roman Catholic | High-grade feeble-minded girls over age 16 | 22/6 | £5 | £5 | — | — | — | |
| St. Teresa's, Lewisham | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females overage 16 | 22/6 | £5 | £5 | Reduction 1 /- | — | — | |
| Stoke Park Colony, Bristol, and Whit-tington Hall, Chesterfield | Protestant | All grades, both sexes (males, only such as can be dealt with by a female staff) | |||||||
| 10 /6 | £3 | — | 7/7 | £1 | — | ||||
| 14/- | £3 | — | |||||||
| The Home, Everton Terrace, Liverpool. | Protestant | Females, feeble-minded and moral defectives over age 16 | 15/- | £8 | £5 | 2/6 | £2 | — | |
| Tubwell Farm, Jarvis Brook, Sussex | No restriction | Feeble-minded males aged 16 to 25 | 21/- | Not to exceed the Poor Law rate for the district | £5 | — | — | — | |
| Walsham How Home, Walthamstow | Church of England | Females, feeble-minded and moral defectives | 12/- | £3 | — | 5/6 | — | £6 | |
| Western Counties Institution, Starcross | No restriction | High-grade cases, both sexes | Actual cost plus 2 /6 a head a week as "overhead" charge. For 1929-30 the charges were:— | ||||||
| 23/- | £5 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Woolwich Poor Law Institution, Plumstead | No restric-1 tion | All grades (adults), both sexes | Average actual Cost. Institution. 20/5-87 Infirmary 67/2-05 | Not to exceed £6 | — | — | — | — | |
(a) Less earnings of patients which are pooled and refunded proportionately to local authorities.
(b) No defectives were being maintained at the end of 1929.
(c) Charges in respect of each infant born in the institution of a defective if pregnant at time of
admission.
45. Except for the Metropolitan Asylums Board Certified Institution, the
accommodation under contract provided little opportunity for the reception of new
cases. To the institutions of the Metropolitan Asylums Board 153 such cases were
sent during 1929.
46. Reference was made in the Annual Report for 1928 (Vol. II., p. 39) to
representations which the Council had made to the Metropolitan Asylums Board
and to the Board of Control as to the desirability of the removal from the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's institution of those defectives who were not chargeable to London,
so that London cases might replace them. During 1929, the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, in response to the representations thus made, gave notice to the extrametropolitan
local authorities concerned to terminate the agreements under which
extra-metropolitan defectives were being maintained in the Board's institutions, at
New cases
sent to
institutions
under
contract.
Extrametropolitan
cases in
in Metropolitan
Asylums
Board certified
institution.