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London County Council 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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47. The number of patients treated during this first year was 1,012, made up Number of as follows patients.
| Female (including wards children). | Male (including wards children). | (including Total. children). | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total registered out-patients | 483 (15) | 415 (29) | 898 | (44) |
| Deduct those re-admitted in O.P. register | 2 once | 2 once | 4 once | |
| Number of persons treated as O.P. | 481 | 413 | 894 | |
| Total registered in-patients 40 | 236 (2) | 190 (6) | 466 | (8) |
| Deduct those re-admitted 2 twice | 6 once | 1 once | 11 | |
| Transferred F.P. to F.W. register | 3 | — | 3 | |
| Nett number of persons treated as in-patients 36 | 227 | 189 | 452 | |
| Persons treated as out-patients only | 273 | 287 | 560 | 894 |
| Persons treated first as out-patients and later as in-patients | 140 | 194 | 334 | |
| 452 | ||||
| Persons treated as in-patients only | 49 | 69 | 118 | |
| Total persons treated | 462 | 550 | 1,012 | |
| Average number of patients resident throughout year | 115 | |||
| Number in hospital 31.1.24 | 142 | |||
48. King's College Hospital have undertaken the X-ray examination and
treatment of patients as and when necessary. The cost of such treatment will not
be regarded as included in the fixed charge for maintenance, and will be recovered,
means permitting, from the patients or the persons responsible for their maintenance.
X-ray
examinations.
49. Conferences of the medical stall from all the mental hospitals are held at
the hospital once a month for consultation as to diagnosis and treatment, and for
the demonstration of rare and interesting conditions. Invitations may be issued
by the medical superintendent to past and present students at the courses in psychological
medicine held at the hospital and to other medical practitioners.
Conferences
of medical
staff.
50. A further course of lectures in psychological medicine, the seventh held
at the hospital, was instituted in January, 1924.
Lectures.
51. Application has been made for the recognition of the hospital as a school
of the London University, and also as an institution where may be taken the prescribed
course on insanity preparatory to the qualifying examinations of the
Universities, Oxford, Cambridge and London, and the Examining Board of the
Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons.
Recognition
of hospital by
universities,
etc.
52.The Council has authorised, as a charge against the accumulated interest
on the bequest of £10,000 made by the late Dr. Henry Maudsley, expenditure of
£400 for the purchase of apparatus and material necessary for research work, and
for grants-in-aid to workers other than members of the Council's staff.
Research.
53. Dr. Mapother, the medical superintendent, has accepted, with the Council's
consent, the appointment of out-patient physician in psychological medicine and 1
lecturer at the medical school of King's College Hospital.
Medical
superintendent.
West Park mental hospital.
54. The eleventh London County mental hospital, at Epsom, has been named
the West Park mental hospital.
West Park
Mental
Hospital.
55. The Council, on 6th November, 1923, appointed Major Norcliffe Roberts,
O.B.E., M.D., B.S. (Durham), D.P.M., deputy medical superintendent of Horton
mental hospital (at that time acting as medical superintendent of the Ewell Colony
during its use as a Ministry of Pensions Hospital), to be the first medical superintendent.
Major V. L. Connolly, M.C., M.B., B.Ch. (Belfast), D.P.M., was later
appointed deputy medical superintendent and Miss K. A. Longland (assistant
matron at Horton mental hospital) was appointed matron. No patients, however,
were admitted until after 31st March, 1924.