[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough] page 104

Tower Hamlets 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

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TABLE 33

MENTAL HEALTH

(i) Patients referred to Council during the year

Referred by	Mentally 111		Psychopathic		Subnormal		Total
	Under	Over	Under	Over	Under	Over
	16	16	16	16	16	16
General practitioners	-	33	-	-	1	-	34
Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment	_	153	_	1	_	3	157
Hospitals, after or during out-patient or day treatment	_	51	_	_	_	_	51
Education authorities	12	-	-	-	25	41	78
Police and courts	-	3	-	-	-	-	3
Other sources	1	45	-	-	1	7	54
Totals	13	285	-	1	27	51	377
(ii) Psychogeriatric Unit, St. Clement' s Hospital
In-patient Unit - Dundee Ward			1968		1967		1966
Admissions			128		114		131
Discharges - Home			71		65		70
- Long Grove Hospital			19		23		23
- Other			37		28		29
Total			127		116		122
Day Hospital
Admissions ... ...			48		58		61
Patient/day attendances			5, 601		5,699		5,382
Discharges - Home			10		5		9
- Long Grove Hospital			-		3		3
- St. Clement's -in-patient			17		26		25
- General hospitals			15		25		22
- Other			5		3		6
Total			47		62		65
Out-Patient Attendances
New Referrals	..		43		36		48
Other Attendances	..		230		184		195
(iii) Admissions to Hospital under Mental Health Act, 1959
			Male		Female		Total
Admitted under; Section 25			18		28		46
Section 26			3		2		5
Section 29			14		17		31
Section 60			6		-		6
Section 136			2		1		3
Admitted informally			42		64		106
	Total:		85		112		197