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Portion Road remand home.
The medical supervision of Ponton Road remand home has been carried out
by Dr. Ingham, one of the Council's whole-time assistant medical officers.
During the year the total number of admissions was 2,420 (2,056 boys, 364
girls). The courts from which children or young persons were received are shown
below.
The annual increase in numbers since 1930 is shown by the following statement
of the numbers admitted in each year :—
1930. 1931. 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935.
785 1,065 1,157 1,504 2,184 2,420
Thus the number of admissions has steadily increased at the approximate
rate of 200 a year up to 1932, and since then at roughly 400 a year.

It will be seen that since 1930 seven additional local authorities are now sending
their juvenile cases to the London remand home. These additional sources of supply
account for 481 cases in 1935.
In 1933 the age limit of the juvenile courts jurisdiction was raised from 16 to
17 years. This, no doubt, accounts in some degree for the increased number of
admissions in the years 1933-4.
The increase in the number of cases received from the various Middlesex
courts is striking, and the large numbers remitted from Lindsey Hall (now Stamford
House) and Lambeth juvenile courts are also noteworthy. On the other hand,
the numbers admitted from Islington juvenile court show a comparatively small
increase. Of the total number of cases admitted (2,420) 949 were from outside
authorities. Middlesex accounting for 468 and Essex for 199.

The admissions remain more or less constant for each month with the exception
of a distinct drop in December and a lesser drop in August and September.