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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Institution. | Religion. | Class of defective received. | Charges. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By contract. | Supplemental payments. | |||||||
| Maintenance (a week). | Burials. | Outfits. | Maintenance (a week) | Burials. | Outfits. | |||
| Pontville | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded males, between 5 and 16 years | 12/- | £5 | — | 5/6 | — | — |
| Princess Christian's Farm Colony | No restriction | High grade cases, both sexes | 12/6 | £4 | £5 | 3/6 | £1 /10/- | £2 |
| Dovecot, Knotty Ash | No restriction | High-grade feeble-minded females, from 16 years | £34 a year | £4 | — | £26 a year | - | - |
| The Home, Everton Terrace, Liverpool | Protestant | Females, feeble-minded and moral imbeciles, over 16 years | 15/- | £8 | £5 | 1/6 | — | - |
| House of Help, Bath | Church of England | Feeble-minded females | 12/6 | £5/5/- | £3 | 4/- | — | £2 |
| Prudhoe Hall Colony | No restrictions | All grades (including epileptics), both sexes | 15/- | £4 | £5 | 3/8 | £1 | £1/10/- |
| Plumstead Institution | No restrictions | All grades (adults), both sexes | (Actual cost) Institution. 18/10 Infirmary 49/2 | Not to exceed £6 | - | - | - | - |
| Marloes-road Institution | No restrictions | Females, all grades | (Actual cost) Institution, 18/1 Infirmary, 36/10 | - | - | - | - | - |
24. Upon the application of the Council, the Board of Control renewed for
five years from 3rd January, 1923, their certificate of approval of the use of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's institution for the reception of cases of mental defect.
This, however, does not give London the whole benefit of the accommodation
provided, winch is available for the reception of cases at the charge of other local
authorities.
Accommodation
provided
by the
Metropolitan
Asylums
Board.
25. The Salvation Army having given notice of their intention to close
Springfield Lodge certified institution. Camberwell, S.E., on 31st January, 1923,
other arrangements were made for the care of the eleven female patients who were
being maintained there at the Council's expense.
Springfield
Lodge.
26. The Managers of the Helping Hand Home, Cathcart Hill, N., approached
the Council for assistance in establishing a hostel ancillary to the home, in which
selected cases could be housed who might be sent to daily domestic service in the
neighbourhood. The Council agreed to make a grant of £75 in return for the
reservation of beds, but owing to unforeseen difficulties in securing suitable premises,
the hostel has not yet been established.
(b) Accommodation provided by the Council.
27. This has continued to be provided at the South Side Home, Streatham
Common, S.W. (80 girls and young women), at Brunswick House, Mistley, Essex,
(50 lads) and at the Manor, Epsom, where at 31st December, 1923, 357 males and
351 females were resident. The only patients received in these institutions are
those London cases for whom the Council has a duty to provide. A statement of
expenditure is given in Appendixes I. and II.
Helping
Hand House;
Hostel.