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Industrial Work at Training and Day Centres
Industrial work undertaken during the year, included such tasks as assembling cardboard boxes,
packing curtain rings, toys, pencil cases, geometry sets, pocket games, plastic toys,making
playing bricks, toy irons and ironing boards, tidy boxes, sorting trays, blackboards and easles,
test-tube racks, Wendy houses, dolls cots, needlework boxes, trays and childrens chairs,trimming
and bundling plastic mouldings, thumb-holing medical boxes, and repairs to furniture.
Amounts received for work executed by the trainees amounted to £3,178 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. £2,202 was
paid out as incentive pocket-money during the year.
Guardianship
One severely sub-normal patient remained under guardianship of the Council at the end of the
year.
This patient for whom the Council is financially responsible is placed with the Guardianship
Society and cared for by being boarded-out with a specially chosen family 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.
The London Hospital
It was announced during the year that plans were being made for the London Hospital's Annexe
at Brentwood, Essex, to be adapted to accommodate sub-normal patients requiring hospital care.
The Psychiatric Department of the London Hospital, has kindly supplied the following report:-
''During the past year, a Day Unit for pre-school disturbed children and their parents
has been started at Oxford House. This is a joint venture supported by the London Hospital
Medical College, the Health Department of the Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Inner London
Education Authority. It is designed to give intensive care to a small number of severely
disturbed young children and their families.
Dr. Kenneth Martin has been appointed a Part-time Consultant at the London Jewish
Child Guidance Clinic, and Senior Lecturer in Child Psychiatry at The London Hospital
Medical College. He also does sessions in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, co-ordinating all
aspects of the mental health of children in the Borough.
Further links are being forged between the Social Work Department of The London Hospital
and the Mental Welfare Officers of the Borough of Tower Hamlets, so that as far as possible
a single Department of Social Work caters for both the Borough and the Hospital".
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