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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 1926
[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. | |||
| Littleton House, Girton | No restriction | Feeble-minded males .. | £72 16s. a year | £510/- | £8 | - | — | — |
| Metropolitan Asylums Board Certified Institution—Sections at: Darenth, Kent Caterham, Surrey I^eavesden, Herts Fountain, Tooting | No restriction | All grades, both sexes | Actual cost, viz.:— 26/3 28/3½ 29/2 36/5½ | Reason- able expenses | - | - | - | - |
| Pield Heath House. Hillingdon, Middlesex | Roman Catholic | Females, feeble-minded and moral imbeciles (tractable cases up to age 16) | 11/6 | £7 | - | 5 /6 | - | - |
| Pontville, Ormskirk, Lanes. | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded males, between 5 and 16 years | 12/- | £5 | — | 8/- | — | — |
| Princess Christian's Farm Colony, Hil-denborough, Kent | No restriction | High grade cases, both sexes | 12 /6 | £4 | £5 | 3/6 | £1/10/- | £2 |
| Prudhoe Hall Colony, Prudhoe-on-T yne | No restriction | All grades (including epileptics), both sexes | 15/- | £4 | £5 | 7/2 | £1 | £1/10/- |
| St. Francis' School, Runtingford, Herts | Roman Catholic | Educable males | 11/6 | £7 | - | 6/- | — | — |
| St Joseph's Home, Sudbury, Suffolk | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females aged 16 to 20 | 11/6 | £6 | - | 3/- | — | — |
| St. Mary's Home, Alton, Hants. | Church of England | Females over 16, who might have had illegitimate children | 14/- | — | £5 | 3/6 | - | — |
| St. Teresa's, Lewisham | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females over the age of 16 years | †22/6 | £5 | £5 | - | - | - |
| Stoke Park Colony, Bristol, and Whit-tington Hall, Chesterfield | Protestant | All grades, both sexes (males, only such as can be dealt with by a female staff) | — | 7/7 | 3/6 | — | ||
| - | ||||||||
| The Home, Everton Terrace, Liverpool. | Protestant | Females, feeble-minded and moral imbeciles, over 16 years | 15/- | £8 | £5 | 1/ | - | - |
| Walsham How Home, Walthamstow | Church of England | Females, feeble-minded and moral imbeciles | 12/- | £3 | — | 5/6 | — | - |
| Western Counties Institution, Starcross | No restriction | High-grade cases, both sexes | Actualcost plus 2/6 a head a week as "overhead " charge, viz.:— | |||||
| 23 /1 | £5 | — | - | — | — | |||
| Woolwich Guardians' Institution, Plum-stead | No restriction | All grades (adults), both sexes | (Actual cost) Institution. 20/5.85 Infirmary 51 /5-02 | Not to exceed £6 | - | - | - | - |
† Subject to variation with the approval of the Minister of Health.
30. During 1926, seventeen of the institutions named in the foregoing table
were visited by members of the Mental Hospitals Committee on behalf of the Council
and the patients who were being maintained there at the Council's charge were seen.
In addition seven other institutions named in the table were visited on the Council's
behalf by local visitors of the Central Association for Mental Welfare. In each
instance satisfactory reports were made by the visitors.
Visitation of
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