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London County Council 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Nurses'
home.
Long Grove Mental Hospital.
68. Following the increase in staff necessitated by the reduction in 1919 of the
ordinary hours of duty, two wards at Long Grove mental hospital, which originally
accommodated 98 male patients, were used to provide accommodation for women
nurses. As this accommodation is required for patients' use, the Council, on our
recommendation, has approved the erection of a nurses' home to accommodate
83 nurses, with the possibility of extension, if necessary, at a later date to house
100 nurses. Meanwhile, it has been possible, by arranging for some nurses to
occupy a building originally used as an isolation hospital and a number of spare
rooms which are available in other parts of the hospital, to release one of the two
wards to provide accommodation for 65 patients.
The Maudsley Hospital.
69. The Maudsley hospital has now entered upon its seventh year of work
and continues fully to prove its value for the treatment on a voluntary basis of
early cases of mental disorder.
Number of
cases under
treatment.
70. The numbers of patients treated at the hospital during the twelve months ended 31st December, 1928, were made up as follows.:—
| Out-patients. | Numbers treated. | Disposed of in out-patient department during 1928. | Admitted to wards from out-patient department during 1928. | Still attending on 31.12.28. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | |||
| Number carried over from year 1923-24 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||
| Number carried over from year 1924-25 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | ||
| Number carried over from year 1925-26 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | ||
| Number carried over from year 1926 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 8 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Number carried over from year 1927 | 75 | 115 | 190 | 49 | 87 | 136 | - | 8 | 8 | 26 | 20 | 46 | ||
| Number registered during 1928 | 620 | 922 | 1542 | 396 | 664 | 1060 | 159 | 153 | 312 | 65 | 105 | 170 | ||
| Total number | 702 | 1047 | 1749 | 447 | 758 | 1205 | 159 | 161 | 320 | 96 | 128 | 224 | ||
| Males. | Females. | Total. | ||||||||||||
| In hospital on 1.1.28 | 52 | 91 | 143 | |||||||||||
| Admitted from out-patient department during 1928 | 159 | 161 | 320 | |||||||||||
| Admitted otherwise during 1928 | 151 | 182 | 333 | |||||||||||
| Total | 362 | 434 | 796 | |||||||||||
| Discharged during the year 1928 | 277 | 313 | 590 | |||||||||||
| Died during the year 1928 | 21 | 16 | 37 | |||||||||||
| Total | 298 | 329 | 627 | |||||||||||
| Remaining in hospital 31.12.28 | 64 | 105 | 169 | |||||||||||
Note.—Seventeen male and five female patients admitted during 1928 were, after discharge,
readmitted, two male patients being readmitted three times. Of these readmissions two male
and two female patients remained in the hospital at 1st January, 1929. The figures given
above do not include the second and subsequent admissions and dischargee.
Lectures in
psychological
medicine.
71. We have authorised a further course of lectures in psychological medicine
with clinical instruction and demonstrations, subject to the conditions which have
applied to previous courses. This will be the twelfth course held at the hospital.