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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
Lambeth 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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MENTAL HEALTH
Number of persons under Local Health Authority care at 31st December 1969
| Mentally III | Elderly mentally infirm | Psychopathic | Subnormal | Severely subnormal | 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 | M | F | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) | (19) | ||
| 1 | Total number | 2 | 105 | 175 | 2 | 37 | 25 | 54 | 52 | 91 | 70 | 88 | 70 | 771 | ||||||
| 2 | Attending workshop/occupation training centres | 14 | 14 | 25 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 63 | 51 | 53 | 37 | 297 | ||||||||
| 3 | Awaiting entry to workshop/ occupation training centres | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Receiving home training | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Awaiting home training | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Resident in L.A. home/hostel | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Awaiting residence in L.A. home/hostel | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Resident at L.A. expense in other homes/hostels | 11 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 52 | ||||||||
| 9 | Resident at L.A. expense by boarding out in private household | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | |||||||||||||