London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Barnet 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet]
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Number of persons referred to Mental Welfare Officers during 1970
| Mentally Ill | Psychopathic | Mentally handicapped | Severely Mentally handicapped | Total | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under age 16 | 16 and over | Under age 16 | 16 and over | Under age 16 | 16 and over | Under age 16 | 16 and over | ||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | :i3) | (14) | (15) | [16) | (17) | |
| (a) General practitioners | 133 | 268 | 401 | ||||||||||||||
| (b) Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment | 1 | 65 | 77 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 150 | |||||||||
| (c) Hospitals, after or during out-patient or day treatment | 26 | 55 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 86 | |||||||||||
| (d) Local education authorities | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 47 | ||||||||
| (e) Police and courts | 19 | 21 | 40 | ||||||||||||||
| (f) Other cources | 4 | 4 | 172 | 257 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 453 | ||||||
| (g) Total | 7 | 5 | 415 | 679 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 1177 | ||||
The terms mentally handicapped and severely mentally handicapped are now used in place of subnormal
and severely subnormal.