[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough] page 100

Tower Hamlets 1969

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TABLE 33

MENTAL HEALTH

Referred by	Mentally 111		Psychopathic		Subnormal		Total
	Under	Over	Under	Over	Under	Over
	16	16	16	16	16	16
General practitioners	-	25	-	-	-	1	26
Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment	_	132	_	_	_	6	138
Hospitals, after or during out-patient or day treatment	_	43	_	_	_	4	47
Education authorities	5	6	_	_	24	32	67
Police and courts	_	3	_	_	_	_	3
Other sources	_	35	_	_	6	11	52
Totals	5	244	_	_	30	54	333
(ii) Psychogeriatric Unit, St. Clement's Hospital
In-patient Unit - Dundee Ward			1969		1968		1967
Admissions			157		128		114
Discharges - Home			64		71		65
- Long Grove Hospital			16		19		23
- Other			77		37		28
Total			157		127		116
Day Hospital Admissions			87		48		58
Patient/day attendances			5,617		5,601		5,699
Discharges - Home			16		10		5
- Long Grove Hospital			-		-		3
-St. Clement's in-patient			29		17		26
-General hospitals			5		15		25
- Other			6		5		3
T otal			56		47		62
Out-patient Attendances New referrals			44		43		36
Other A ttendances			247		230		184
(iii) Admissions to Hospital under Mental Health Act, 1959
			Male		Female		Total
Admitted under Section 25			17		28		45
Section 26			1		4		5
Section 29			8		13		21
Section 60			4		1		5
Section 135			1		-		1
Section 136			5		1		6
Admitted informally			39		47		86
Total			75		94		169