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A social club for the trainees is held at the Industrial Training Centre on
Wednesday evenings at which the Supervisor and his assistants give their services.
Parents are able to see the types of work carried out by their sons.
Included in the Council's Capital Programme is the construction of an Adult
Training Centre to replace the two centres mentioned, at an estimated cost of £180,000
It is hoped that construction will commence next year.
Industrial Work at Training and Day Centres
Industrial work undertaken during the year, included such tasks as assembling
egg cups, egg slicers, making bed blocks, playing bricks, toy irons and ironing boards,
tidy boxes, sorting trays, blackboards and easels, test-tube racks, Wendy dressers,
dolls cots, needlework boxes, trays and childrens chairs, thumb-holing medical boxes,
rivetting handles to travel bags and repairs to furniture.
Amounts received for work executed by the trainees amounted to £3,735 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, 215 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
A statistical report received from the London Hospital shows that in-patients
suffering from mental illness and discharged from four hospitals in the borough
(London, St. Clement's, Mildmay ssion and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals) numbered
1,192 during the year from 148 available beds. New out-patients seen totalled 1,858their
attendances amounting to 16,501.
The Drug Addiction Unit at St. Clement's Hospital saw 88 new patients attending
on 7,832 occasions.
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