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London County Council
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1929.
VOL. II.—.MENTAL HOSPITALS AND MENTAL DEFICIENCY.
CHAPTER I.
During the year elided 31st March, 1930, the position, powers and duties of the
Council in regard to the care of the mentally afflicted were not altered. A full list of
these powers and duties will be found in Vol. I. of the Annual Report. The passing
of the Local Government Act, 1929, has introduced changes which, however, did
not become operative until 1st April, 1930, and will be matter for discussion, therefore,
in a subsequent report.
CHAPTER II.
Report of the Mental Hospitals Committee to the London County Council.
1. This report, for the year ended 31st March, 1930, is the thirteenth annual
report of the Committee to which, under section 35 of the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1915, stand referred all matters relating to the exercise by the
Council of the powers of a visiting committee under the Lunacy Acts. It is the
thirty-eighth annual report upon the administration of the London County mental
hosDitals.*
Scope of the
report.
2. During the period covered by this report, meetings have been held as
follows :—Mental Hospitals Committee, 16; visiting sub-committees of mental
hospitals (ordinarily fortnightly, one meeting being held to transact general business
and the next to discharge patients and to make statutory inspections), 272 ; other
sub-committees (dealing with matters arising from the Council's administration of
the Lunacv Acts), 38.
Meetings.
Accommodation.
3. On 1st January, 1930, the accommodation at the London County mental
hospitals, on the basis of the requirements of the Board of Control as to bed space,
was :—
Accommodation.

*It should be observed that a few of the matters dealt with in this chapter, e.g., under the
section relating to superannuation acts, have an application wider than the mental hospital
service and concern also the service under the Mental Deficiency Act, which, strictly, is
matter for chapter III., which follows.
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