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Additional
accommodation.
4. Comparison of table 1 with the corresponding table in the last report
(Annual Report of the Council, 1928, Vol. II., p. 3) shows a net increase in the total
measured accommodation of all the hospitals (excluding special provision for private
male patients at Claybury) of 127 beds (5 for men and 122 for women). The increase
in the accommodation for women is due chiefly to the reversion for use for patients,
on the completion of a new nurses' home, of wards at Horton mental hospital (118
beds) which, for some time, had been adapted to serve as dormitory accommodation
for staff; there have been minor adjustments also at Claybury, Colney Hatch and
Hanwell mental hospitals. The increase in male accommodation was made possible
by the re-measurement of available space at Hanwell mental hospital.
Progress with
approved
schemes.
5. During the year 1929 progress was made with the erection of nurses' homes
at Claybury and Bexley mental hospitals which will set free, for use by patients,
accommodation at these hospitals which since 1919 it has been necessary to use as
dormitory accommodation for nurses. Reference was made to the inception of
schemes for the provision of these homes in the Council's annual report for 1927
(Vol. II., chap. 2, par. 6). At that time it was contemplated that the completion of
the Bexley nurses' home would set free accommodation for 65 women patients;
the greater need, however, for beds for male patients led to a re-consideration of this
arrangement and a later scheme was made to evacuate nurses from a ward on the
male side which it had been intended to leave untouched, with the result that the
accommodation made available for patients is 51 beds for men and 40 for women.
This accommodation was not ready for use by 1st January, 1930, however, nor was
the accommodation for 70 women patients at Claybury mental hospital to be made
available on the completion of the nurses' home there.
New schemes
approved.
6. During 1929 we have approved schemes, referred to in the Council's annual
report for 1928 (Vol. II., chap. 2, par. 7) as in contemplation, for the erection (a) at
Banstead mental hospital of an admission villa to house in two wings, 50 male and
50 female patients, (6) at Long Grove and Cane Hill mental hospitals of nurses'
homes which will restore, for the accommodation in the one case of 33 additional
male patients and in the other of 76 additional women patients, wards, which since
1919 have been used as staff dormitories, (c) at Long Grove mental hospital of a sanatorium
villa for 30 women patients and (d) at Horton mental hospital of a small
building (an annexe to " A " admission hospital) to enable certain forms of special
treatment (electrical and Plombiere) to be administered and of an addition to " C "
hospital (where malarial treatment for general paralysis of the insane is given) to
provide 10 beds for male patients in addition to the 14 for women hitherto
provided.
Date of
completion of
approved
schemes.