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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 1928
[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. | |||
| London Lock Hospital | N o restriction | Feeble-minded and morally defective females | 36/-18/-(b) | £7/10/- | - | 6/-3 /-(b) | — | — |
| Metropolitan Asylums Board Certified Institution—Sections at: Caterham, Surrey Darenth, Kent Fountain, Tooting Leavesden, Herts | No restriction | All grades, both sexes | Actual cost, viz.:— 30/4 27/1½ 37/11 30/4 | Reason able expenses | - | - | - | - |
| Monkton Hall Home, Jarrow-on-Tyne | No restriction | Feeble-minded males over age 16 | 19/- | £8 | £5 | — | — | — |
| Pield Heath House Hillingdon, Middlesex | Roman Catholic | Females, feeble-minded and moral defectives (tractable cases up to age 16) | 11/6 | £7 | - | 5/6 | - | - |
| Pontville, Ormskirk, Lancs. | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded males, aged 5 to 16 | 20/- | £7 | — | — | — | — |
| Princess Christian's Farm Colony, Hildenborough, Kent | No restriction | High grade cases, both sexes | 17/- | £5 10s. | £7 | — | — | — |
| Royal Earlswood Institution, Redhill | No restriction. | All grades, both sexes | Not exceeding £63 a year | Reasonable expenses | £5 | - | - | - |
| St. Elizabeth's Home, Much Hadham, Herts | Roman Catholic | Epileptic idiots, imbeciles and feeble-minded, both sexes | 12/6 | £5 | £4 | 7/6 | - | — |
| St. Joseph's Home, Sudbury, Suffolk | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females aged 16 to 20 | 11/6 | £6 | — | 4/6 | — | - |
| St. Mary's Home, Alton, Hants. | Church of England | Females over age 16, who might have had illegitimate children | 14/- | - | £5 | 3/- | — | — |
| St. Michael's Convent, Streatham Common | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females | 22/6 | £5 | £5 | Reduction 1/- | — | — |
| St. Raphael's, Brentford | Roman Catholic | High-grade feeble-minded girls over age 16 | 22/6 | £5 | £5 | — | - | — |
| St. Teresa's, Lewisham | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females over age 16 | 22/6 | £5 | £5 | Reduction 1 /- | — | — |
| Stoke Park Colony, Bristol, and Whittington Hall, Chesterfield | Protestant | All grades, both sexes (males, only such as can be dealt with by a female stall) | cases:-£3 | — | 7/7 | 3/6 | — | |
| The Home, Everton Terrace, Liverpool. | Protestant | Females, feeble-minded and moral defectives over age 16 | 15/- | £8 | £5 | 1/- | £2 | — |
| The "Royal" Hostel, nr. Elstead, Surrey | No restriction | High-grade male adults | 30/-(a) | £7 | £7 | — | — | — |
| Tubwell Farm, Jarvis Brook, Sussex | No restriction | Feeble-minded males aged 16 to 25 | 21/- | Not to exceed the Poor Law rate for the district | £5 | - | - | - |
| Walsham How Home, Walthamstow | Church of England | Females, feeble-minded and moral defectives | 12/- | £3 | — | 5/6 | — | £6 |
| For notes see page 38. | ||||||||