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9. These totals will be increased by the numbers of beds which will be
provided as the result of the structural alterations and additions, now in hand or
in active preparation, set out hereunder:—
Male. Female. Total.
Erection of male villa at Colney Hatch mental hospital 40 0 40
Structural alterations to provide for better classification at:
Cane Hill mental hospital — 10 10
Claybury mental hospital — 43 43
Erection of nurses' villa at Horton mental hospital, setting
free, for the use of patients, accommodation in
wards originally provided for patients but at present
used for nurses — 120 120
40 173 213
Upon completion therefore of the various structural alterations and additions
now in hand or contemplated (as above), the number of beds in the mental hospitals
will be 8,509 for male, and 11,882 for female patients, a total of 20,391.
10. The numbers of patients resident on 1st January, 1927, were
Patients—
Number
resident.
Table 2.
Mental hospital.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Banstead
845
1,131
1,976
Bexley
1,054
1,118
2,172
Cane Hill
883
1,255
2,138
Claybury
940
1,289
2,229
Claybury Hall (private patients only)
57
—
57
Colney Hatch
1,005
1,546
2,551
Hanwell
1,046
1,379
2,425
Horton
270
1,671*
1,941
Long Grove
1,091
1,029
2,120
West Park
978
781
1,759
Ewell Colony†
—
—
—
Total
8,169
11,199
19,368
Total (excluding Claybury Hall)
8,112
11,199
19,311
* Includes 131 patients in the private wards.
† Accommodation in use at 1st January, 1927, by Ministry of Pensions.
11. A comparison of table 1 with table 2 shews that at all the London County
mental hospitals except West Park the number of patients was in excess of the
measured accommodation. There were, however, at West Park mental hospital
150 vacant beds for male and 187 for female patients, 337 in all.
12. The statutory returns made to the Board of Control by the London
Boards of Guardians, taken with other available information show that on 1st January
1927, the Council was responsible for finding accommodation for 19,807 insane
persons, who were housed as follows:—
Patients for
whom the
Council was
responsible.
Table 3.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Parish patients in London County mental hospitals
7,061
10,759
17,820
Parish patients maintained by the Council in other
mental hospitals under contract
85
389
474
Parish patients in the mental hospitals of other
counties and boroughs under arrangements made
by guardians
30
94
124
Total Parish patients
7,176
11,242
18,418
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