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City of Westminster 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table 40.-Mental Health Service-Number of Patients referred to City Council during year ended 31st December, 1969
| Referred by | Mentally III | Subnormal | Severely subnormal | *Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under age 16 | 16 and over | U nder age 1 6 | 16 and over | Under age 16 | 16 and over | |||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | 1969 | 1968 | |
| (a) General practitioners | - | 1 | 29 | 65 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 98 | 100 |
| (b) Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment | - | - | 103 | 174 | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 283 | 329 |
| (c) Hospitals, after or during | - | - | 39 | 58 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 98 | 113 |
| out-patient or day treatment | ||||||||||||||
| - | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 46 | |
| (e) Police and courts | - | - | 9 | 9 | - | - | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 24 | 32 |
| - | - | 180 | 233 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 469 | 478 | |
| Total | - | 1 | 363 | 542 | 7 | 7 | 42 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 1,015 | 1,098 |
| * Excludes referrals for the purpose of obtaining admission to hospital. Numbers so admitted are shown in the following table. | ||||||||||||||
Table 41.—Number of Patients for whom Hospital Admissions were arranged
| SECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH ACT | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Informal | Sec. 25 | Sec. 26 | Sec. 29 | Sec. 136 | Sec. 60 | ||
| 1969 | 157 | 180 | 9 | 263 | 11 | 50 | 670 |
| 1968 | 157 | 168 | 3 | 219 | 1 | 35 | 583 |
Table 42.-Mental Health Service-Number of cases in community care at end of year
| Mentally III | Subnormal | Severely subnormal | Grand Total | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | 1969 | 1968 | |
| - | - | 23 | 23 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 138 | 104 | |
| (ii) Awaiting entry thereto | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| (ii) Awaiting home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 5 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 13 | 11 | |
| (ii) Awaiting residence in L.A. home/hostel | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - |
| (iii) Resident at L.A. expense in other residential homes/hostels | - | - | 19 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 104 | 84 |
| (iv) Resident at L.A. expense by boarding out in private household | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| - | - | 186 | 375 | 12 | 3 | 41 | 44 | 5 | 12 | 24 | 17 | 719 | 661 | |
| Total number | - | - | 232 | 420 | 21 | 13 | 59 | 58 | 53 | 38 | 46 | 53 | 993 | 878 |