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, 1968
Mentally III | Subnormal and Severely Subnormal | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under aged 16 yrs. | Aged 16 yrs. to 64 yrs. | Aged 65 yrs. and over | Total | Under age 16 yrs. | Aged 16 yrs. and over | Total | ||||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
1. Number of patients under care on 31st December, 1968 | 1 | 1 | 121 | 213 | - | - | 336 | 102 | 90 | 120 | 129 | 441 |
2. (a) Attending day training centre | - | - | 10 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 53 | 35 | 57 | 59 | 204 |
(b) Awaiting admission | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | 5 |
3. (a) Resident in L.H.A. home /hostel | - | - | 4 | 11 | - | - | 15 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 7 |
(b) Awaiting residence in L.H.A. home/hostel | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 |
(c) Resident at L.H.A. expense in other residential homes/ hostels | - | - | 5 | 4 | - | - | 9 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 23 |
(d) Resident at L.H.A. expense by boarding out in private household | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 15 | 22 |
4. Receiving home visits and not included in (2) or (3) | 1 | 1 | 102 | 192 | - | - | 296 | 41 | 49 | 41 | 46 | 177 |
5. No. of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.68 | ||||||||||||
(a) In urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | 3 | 8 |
(b) Not in urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 3 | 1 | 8 |
6. No. of admissions for temporary residential care, e.g. to relieve the family, during 1968 | ||||||||||||
(a) To N.H.S. Hospitals | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 37 |
(b) Elsewhere | — | — | — | 1 | — | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | 9 |