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Industrial Work at Training and Day Centres
Industrial work undertaken during the year included such tasks as assembling cardboard
boxes, sets of darts, skipping ropes, paint boxes; packing curtain rails, toys, pencil cases,
cardboard boxes; sorting chess-sets, pocket games, plastic egg-cups, whips and tops; making
playing-bricks, toy ironing boards, tidy boxes, sorting trays , easels, test-tube racks, basketry
bases, cots; trimming and bundling plastic mouldings, thumb-holing medical boxes, and repairs to
furniture.
Amounts received for work executed by the trainees amounted to £3,440, against which has
to be offset the cost of materials. Payment is made to trainees, based on attendance, and is
regarded as incentive pocket-money to supplement state benefits which they receive. £1,995 was
paid out as incentive pocket-money during the year.
Guardianship
Three severely sub-normal patients remained under guardianship of the Council at the end
of the year.
These patients for whom the Council is financially responsible are placed with the
Guardianship Society and are cared for by being boarded-out with specially chosen families in
the Sussex area.
Provision of Services for City of London
This Council undertakes all mental health functions for the City of London on an agency
basis as provided for in Section 5(2) of the London Government Act 1963.
St. Clement's Hospital
The Medical Director of St. Clement's Hospital, Dr. John Denham M.D.,D.P.M., has kindly
supplied the following report on the year's work of the hospital:-
"In 1968 St. Clement's Hospital finally took on the responsibility for the psychiatric
treatment and care of the residentsof the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Four years
ago the Regional Hospital Board accepted a plan for the provision of a comprehensive
psychiatric service in East London based on St. Clement's Hospital. This could only be
achieved by close co-operation with the Mental Welfare Department and the assistance of
the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association.
The essential steps towards a comprehensive service were provision of:-
1. Emergency service
2. Early treatment
3. Community care
1. The Emergency Services for the newly created London Borough of Tower Hamlets
were based on St. Clement's Hospital since 1st April 1965. During the day the duty doctor
has examined, treated and accepted patients at their own request or from general
practitioners or other social agencies. At night and during week-ends the duty doctor
deals with all requests from the community in the hospital or in appropriate cases at
home.
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