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*Temporarily reduced while certain wards are undergoing reconstruction.
tAccommodation in use at 1st January 1927, by the Ministry of Pensions, for cases of mental disturbance occasioned
by war service, and therefore not available for the Council's patients. The figures given here represent the allocation of
the accommodation before the occupation of the Colony by the Ministry commenced. See statement in paragraph 7.
6. Comparison of this table with the corresponding table in the last annual
report (Annual Report of the Council, 1925, Vol. II., p. 4) shows an increase in the
total measured accommodation of all the hospitals of 354 beds (192 male and 162
females). This is due mainly to the completion of the additional wards for female
patients at West Park mental hospital and to the re-occupation, following reconstruction,
of certain of the male wards at Banstead mental hospital.
7. Occupation of the Ewell Colony was resumed by the Council on 1st February,
1927, on its vacation by the Ministry of Pensions and its accommodation (429 beds)
will be utilised for the reception of 100 male and 329 female patients. The use of
the greater portion of the accommodation for female patients (reversing the allocation
which obtained before the Ministry's occupation began) is necessary to meet
the greater requirement at present for beds for female as compared with male
patients. The arrangement so to use the Colony is subject to further consideration
at the end of two years. This variation in the use of the accommodation at the
Ewell Colony converts the increase in accommodation for male patients (see para. 6)
into a decrease of 37 beds but increases the additional female accommodation to
391 beds. The Colony though originally provided for the accommodation of
epileptic patients can no longer be reserved entirely for that class of case, but has
to serve, for the present at least, for the reception of other types of mental disorder.
8. When the structural alterations at Banstead mental hospital have been
completed the measured accommodation at the London County mental hospitals,
including Ewell Colony, will be as follows:—
Male. Female. Total.
Banstead 1,110 1,387 2,497
Bexley 1,015 1,071 2,086
Cane Hill 846 1,270 2,116
Clay bury 924 1,229 2,153
Colney Hatch 1,006 1,473 2,479
Hanwell 1,006 1,322 2,328
Horton 271 1,655 1,926
Long Grove 1,063 1,005 2,068
West Park 1,128 968 2,096
Ewell Colony 100 329 429
8,469 11,709 20,178