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 Brent]
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Table 19
Number of patients referred during year ended 31st December, 1967.
Mentally ill | Sub-normal and severely sub-normal | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | |||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
General practitioners | 2 | 2 | 140 | 302 | 446 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 2 |
Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment | - | - | 48 | 94 | 142 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Hospitals, after or during out - patient or day treatment | - | - | 51 | 83 | 134 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 6 |
Local education authorities | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
Police and courts | — | — | 16 | 10 | 26 | - | - | - | - | - |
Other sources | 2 | 1 | 117 | 222 | 342 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 26 |
Total | 4 | 3 | 372 | 711 | 1,090 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 54 |
Table 20
Work of Mental Welfare Officers and Mental Health Social Workers.
(a) Mental Illness:
Visits made by mental welfare officers 4,116
Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers 258
Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers 221
(b) Mental sub-normality:
Visits to those under Council's community care by mental welfare officers and mental health
social workers 1,648
WELFARE OF THE BLIND
Table 21
Classification of Registered Blind Persons by Age Groups
Age Group | No. |
---|---|
Under 5 | 4 |
5—15 | 11 |
16 — 20 | 9 |
21—29 | 20 |
30 — 39 | 17 |
40 — 49 | 44 |
50 — 59 | 73 |
60 — 64 | 47 |
65—69 | 49 |
70 — 79 | 143 |
80 — 84 | 57 |
85 — 89 | 42 |
90 and over | 50 |
Total | 566 |