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London County Council 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 3.
| Males. | Females. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parish patients in London County mental hospitals | 7,738 | 11,506 | 19.244 |
| Parish patients maintained by the Council in other mental hospitals under contract | 35 | 227 | 262 |
| Parish patients in the mental hospitals of other counties and boroughs under arrangements made by guardians | 51 | 42 | 93 |
| 7,824 | 11,775 | ||
| Private patients at Horton mental hospital | — | 132 | 132 |
| Patients in various London County mental hospitals on the private list (Lunacy Act, 1891, section 3), including ex-soldiers classified as "service" patients and private patients | 1,005 | 285 | 1,290 |
| 1,005 | 417 | ||
| Criminal lunatics in various London County mental hospitals chargeable to the Prison Commissioners | 13 | — | 13 |
| 8,842 | 12,192 |
The totals in the last column, printed in italics, appear again in Table 6.
[This table does not include male private patients in the private section at Claybury mental
hospital, but it does include female private patients at Horton mental hospital, all of whom have
London settlements and are received at a low charge, so that probably, if they were not dealt
with thus, the Council would have to provide for them as parish cases. This is true also of the
" private list" cases, all of whom are admitted in the first instance as parish cases, and of
the majority of the "service " cases.l
16. The number of London rate-aided patients accommodated in London
County mental hospitals on 1st January, 1930, exceeded by 187 (159 males, 28
females) the number so accommodated on 1st January, 1929. The number of London
patients accommodated in out-county mental hospitals under arrangements made
by London boards of guardians, i.e., patients admitted to out-county mental hospitals
but subsequently found to be chargeable to London parishes or unions, was 6 less
on 1st January, 1930, than on 1st January, 1929 (7 more males and 13 fewer females).
During the year 1929 the number of such patients transferred from out-county
mental hospitals to London County mental hospitals was 120 (42 males, 78 females),
and one male patient who was in a licensed house on 1st January, 1929, was transferred
to a London County mental hospital.
Parish
patients.
17. The number of patients boarded out under contracts made between the
Council and the visiting committees of out-countv mental hospitals was on 1st
January, 1929, 269 (35 males, 234 females). On 1st January, 1930, the contracts
in force were as shown in Table 4.
Patients
boarded out
under
contracts.
18. Table 5 shows the total number of the insane for whom the Council has
teen responsible to find accommodation on 1st January, in certain years
ince 1890.*
Council's
responsibility
for patients
since 1890.
* The figures for each year up to 1915 will be found in the Annual Report for 1915-1919
(Vol. II., p. 15) and for 1916-1919 in the Annual Report for 1921 (Vol. II., p. 6).