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OTHER SERVICES FOR SUBNORMAL AND SEVERELY SUBNORMAL PATIENTS
Day Training Centres for junior and senior trainees
There are 63 Westminster children attending training centres at:—
Fulham Junior 11
Kensington Junior 22
North Kensington Senior 13
Balham 1
Clapham 3
College Park 10
Archway 3
Organized Annual Holiday for Trainees
Every year the trainees are given the opportunity of having a seaside holiday and arrangements
were made for ten Westminster children to go to St. Mary's Bay Holiday Camp, Dymchurch, Kent,
for two weeks. Where the parents are unable to pay the cost the Council gives the necessary assistance.
Home Tuition
Two patients in community care receive training from a qualified home tutor.
Day Nurseries
Seven mentally handicapped children attend these day nurseries and are seen regularly by one of
the Health Department's senior medical officers.
Special Clinics
The number of children attending clinics and receiving help from this necessary specialist service
is:—
Harrow Road 45
Bessborough Street 13 (this clinic opened on 2nd July, 1965)
Short-term Care
Arrangements were made for 24 patients to have holidays for varying periods of two to eight weeks.
Seventeen were placed in suitable homes and seven in hospitals.
Linnet House—Special Care Unit
It was proposed in November 1965 to adapt existing accommodation at Linnet House Maternal
and Child Welfare Clinic, Charlbert Street, N.W.8., to provide a unit for twelve severely mentally
handicapped children. It is hoped to complete this project by autumn of 1966.
OTHER SERVICES FOR THE MENTALLY ILL
Day Rehabilitation Centres
Ten Westminster patients attend day rehabilitation centres and receive constructive training and
support at:—
Blackfriars 4
Castle Day 2
Crossways 3
Shoreditch 1
GENERAL
Renewal of Guardianship—Section 43 of the Mental Health Act, 1959
The Health Committee accepted guardianship responsibility for one patient on 1st April, 1965
and this was renewed on 1st July. (Prior to April the patient was under the formal guardianship of
the London County Council.)
Approval and Re-approval of Medical Practitioners for the Purposes of Section 28
The City of Westminster has the largest number of approved medical practitioners in the London
area; during the nine months from April to December 1965 one was newly approved and 32 were
re-approved.
SOCIAL WORKERS (HEALTH SERVICES)
(Miss I. J. McFarlane, M.A., Principal Social Worker (Health Services))
Since April, 1965, the social workers previously employed by the London County Council and the
three Borough Councils (except for those engaged on Mental Health) have all been brought into one
section of the Health Department under the leadership of the Principal Social Worker (Health
Services).