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MENTAL HEALTH STATISTICS 1968
Quarter ended
Total
Total
1967
31.3.
29.6.
28.9.
31.12.
1. Numbers referred by
(i) Hospitals (in-patients)
87
81
95
98
361
395
(ii) Hospitals (outpatients
)
51
30
65
43
189
253
(iii) General practitioners
72
55
47
47
221
245
(iv) Police or Courts
3
1
7
10
21
22
(v) Other non-medical
147
97
113
119
476
532
TOTALS
360
264
327
317
1,268
1,447
2. Mental category of above
(i) Mentally ill
309
250
307
296
1,162
1,345
(ii) Sub-normal or
severely sub-normal
51
13
20
21
105
102
(iii) Psychopathic
Nil
1
Nil
NL1
1
Nil
3. Initially admitted to
hospital
(i) Informally
38
32
35
35
140
155
(ii) Compulsorily
Section 25
(observation)
36
31
51
44
162
156
Section 26
(treatment)
Section 29
5
6
11
9
31
29
(emergency)
24
25
17
22
88
125
Other
2
1
1
Nil
4
5
TOTALS
105
95
115
110
425
470
4. Final Disposal
(including patients
initially admitted to
hospital)
(i) No further action
115
89
122
120
446
548
(ii) Hospital care
105
95
115
110
425
465
(iii) Community care
97
86
87
85
355
368
TOTALS
317
270
324
315
1,226
1,381
5. Community care
Under care
31.12.67
Referred
during
1968
Withdrawn
from care
1968
Under care
31.12.68
547
355
280
622