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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 1929
[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 week) | Burials. | Outfits. | |||
| Eagle House Hostel, Mitcham | No restriction | Feeble-minded women of high grade | 20/-(a) | £5 | £5 | £7 (for patients enter- domestic service) | ||
| Ellen Terry National Home for Blind Defective Children, Reigate | No restriction | Imbecile and feebleminded blind children up to age 12 | £90 a year | £5 | £5 | |||
| Etloe House, Leyton | Roman Catholic | Feeble-minded females from age 16 | 11/6 | £6 | £6 | 5/6 | — | — |
| Girls' Village Home, Barkingside (Dr. Barnardo's Homes) | No restriction | Feeble-minded and imbecile girls | 14/- | £10 | ||||
| Helping Hand Home, Cathcart Hill, N. | No restriction | Feeble-minded females, preferably from age 16 | 17/6 | £6 | £8 and allowances for upkeep | |||
| nillside, Buntingford, Herts | Roman Catholic | Educable males | 11/6 | £7 | 7/- | — | — | |
| House of Help, Bath | Church of England | Feeble-minded females | 16/6 | £8 | £5 | — | — | — |
| Littleton House, Cambridge | No restriction | Feeble-minded males | £72/16-ayear | £5/10/- | £8 | — | — | |
| London Lock Hospital (b) | No restriction | Feeble-minded and morally defective females | 36/-18 Ho) | £7/10/- | — | — | — | |
| Metropolitan Asylums Board Certified Institution—Sections | No restriction | All grades, both sexes | Actual cost, viz.:— | Reason- able expenses | ||||
| Caterham, Surrey | 31/9½ | |||||||
| Darenth, Kent | 28/- | |||||||
| Fountain, Tooting | 35/- | |||||||
| Leavesden, Herts | 31/2½ | |||||||
| 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, Lanes. | 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 | -/9 | — | — |
| Royal Earlswood Institution, Redhill | No restriction. | All grades, both sexes | Not exceeding £63 a year | Reasonable expenses | £5 | |||
| Royal Hostel, nr. Elstead, Surrey | No restriction | High-grade male adults | 30/-(a) | £7 | £7 | — | — | — |
| St. Elizabeth's Home, Much Hadham, Herts | Roman Catholic | Epileptic idiots, imbeciles and feeble-minded both sexes | 12/6 | £5 | £4 | 7/6 | — | — |
For notes see page 35.