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London County Council 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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cent, of the total; in 1900, it had fallen to 33. per cent.; and is now only 2.6 per cent.
The necessity for discrimination ceased at 1st April, 1930, after which date boards of
guardians ceased to exist and settlement is within the county and not within
parishes or unions comprised in the county.
42. The following table gives particulars of "Service" patients at each of the Service
London County mental hospitals during the year ended 31st March, 1930:— patients
Table 15.
| "Service" patients at the hospital at 31st. March, 1929. | Admission of patients who have had military service. | Patients classified as "Service" patients during the year. | "Service" patients discharged or transferred during the year. | "Service" patients died during the year. | "Service" patients remaining at 31st. March 1930. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under Section 91 of Army Act. | Under summary reception orders. | Transferred from other mental hospitals. | |||||||
| Unclassified. | Service patients. | ||||||||
| Banstead | 120 | _ | 55 | _ | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 115 |
| Bexiey | 76 | — | 61 | 2 | — | 1 | 4 | 1 | 72 |
| Cane Hill | 86 | — | 41 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 86 |
| Claybury | 142 | — | 5 | — | — | 5 | 5 | 2 | 140 |
| Colney Hatch | 78 | — | 18 | — | — | 3 | 6 | 1 | 74 |
| Ewell Colony | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hanwell | 123 | _ | 63 | — | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 125 |
| Horton | — | _ | _ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Long Crove | 130 | — | 95 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 130 |
| West Park | 42 | 1 | 10 | — | — | 6 | 4 | 2 | 42 |
| Total | 797 | 1 | 348 | 11 | 5 | 27 | 33 | 12 | 784 |
43. The number of patients who have had military service admitted under
summary reception orders (i.e., through poor law parishes or unions) was 14 more
than the number so admitted during the previous year. Every such case is considered
by the Ministry of Pensions with a view to " service " classification should
the Ministry be satisfied that the mental disability is due to or is aggravated by
military service during the Great War. The number of such cases to receive " service
classification during the year ended 31st March, 1930, was less by 8 than the
corresponding number for the year ended 31st March, 1929. The number of those
patients admitted who have had military service has not decreased to any great
extent during the past few years, but the number of such patients who are considered
by the Minstry of Pensions to be entitled to " service " classification has decreased
considerably. Obviously with the passage of time the number of cases in which
mental disability is directly due to or has been aggravated by military service during
the Great War must diminish.
Alien Lunatics.
44. There has been 110 change since our last annual report in the arrangements
made for the deportation of alien lunatics.
Alien
lunatics.
45. During the year ended 31st December, 1929, 89 alien patients were
admitted to London County mental hospitals chargeable to London parishes or
unions or to the county, and there were 670 already in residence on 1st January,
1929. Of the total number of 759, 1 has been deported under the provisions of the
Aliens Act, 5 have been discharged to friends for repatriation, 9 have been transferred
to other mental hospitals, 44 have died, and 31 have been discharged either "relieved "
or " recovered," 90 in all, leaving 669 in residence on 31st December, 1929.
46. The nationalities of these 669 patients were as follows:—American (U.S.A.),
11; American (South), 3; Arabian, 1; Armenian, 3; Asiatic (country unknown),
1: Austrian, 22 ; Belgian, 10; Bulgarian, 1; Chinese, 9; Czecho-Slovak, 4; Danish