Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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TABLE 25
MENTAL HEALTH
Patients under Local Health Authority Care at 31st December, 1966
Mentally I11 | Subnormal and Severely Subnormal | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under age 16 yrs. | Aged 16 yrs. to 64 yrs. | Aged 65 yrs. and over | Total | Under age 16 yrs. | Aged 16 yrs. and over | Total | ||||||
1. Number of patients under care at 31st December, 1966 | 2 | - | 129 | 153 | 12 | 41 | 337 | |||||
2. (a) Attending day training centre | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
(b) Awaiting admission | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
3. (a) Resident in L.H.A. home/ hostel | - | - | 2 | - | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | |
(b) Awaiting residence in L.H.A. home/hostel | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
(c) Resident at L.H.A. expense in other residential homes/ hostels | - | 13 | 5 | - | - | 20 | - | - | - | |||
(d) Resident at L.H.A. expense by boarding out in private household | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
4. Receiving home visits and not included in (2) or (3) | - | - | 114 | 140 | 12 | 41 | 307 | |||||
5. No. of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.66: | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
(a) In urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
(b) Not in urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -5 | ||||
6. No. of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the family) during 1966: | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
(a) To N.H.S. Hospitals | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
(b) Elsewhere | - | — | — | — | — | — | — |