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 Westminster, City of]
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Table 42.—Mental Health Service—Number of Patients referred to City Council during year ended 31st December, 1970
Referred by | Mentally III | Mentally Handicapped | Severely Mentally Handicapped | *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. | 1970 | 1969 | |
(a) General practitioners | - | - | 31 | 71 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 103 | 98 |
(b) Hospitals, on discharge | ||||||||||||||
from in-patient treatment | - | - | 80 | 238 | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 328 | 283 |
(c) Hospitals, after or during | ||||||||||||||
out-patient or day treatment | - | - | 34 | 65 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 102 | 98 |
- | - | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 4 | - | - | 43 | 43 | |
(e) Police and courts | - | - | 9 | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 24 |
(f) Other sources | - | - | 187 | 313 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 547 | 469 |
Total | - | - | 347 | 693 | 8 | 7 | 30 | 26 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1,138 | 1,015 |
Excludes referrals for the purpose of obtaining admission to hospital. Numbers so admitted are shown in the following table. |
Table 43.—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 | ||
1970 | 189 | 183 | 5 | 232 | 5 | 18 | 632 |
1969 | 157 | 180 | 9 | 263 | 11 | 50 | 670 |
Table 44.—Mental Health Service—Number of cases in community care at end of year
Mentally III | Mentally Handicapped | Severely Mentally Handicapped | 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. | 1970 | 1969 | |
- | - | 26 | 22 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 33 | 20 | 14 | 22 | 150 | 138 | |
(ii) Awaiting entry thereto | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | 9 | 11 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
(ii) Awaiting home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- | - | 4 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 19 | 13 | |
(ii) Awaiting residence in L.A. home/hostel | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 |
(iii) Resident at L.A. expense in other residential homes/hostels | - | - | 14 | 30 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 115 | 104 |
(iv) Resident at L.A. expense by boarding out in private household | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
- | - | 220 | 440 | 5 | 5 | 45 | 51 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 16 | 818 | 719 | |
Total number | — | - | 265 | 495 | 15 | 14 | 58 | 68 | 59 | 46 | 46 | 49 | 1,115 | 993 |