[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 91

London County Council 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: Table (iii) Initial action*

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Table (iii) Initial action*

		1959		1960
	No.	%	No.	%
None possible or necessary	1,583	230	1,564	25.0
Admitted for observation	3,476	50.6	2,979	47.6
Other action	1,821	26.4	1,713	27.4
	6,880	100.0	6,256	100.0
* After visit by mental welfare officer.

Table: Table (iv) Closure

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Table (iv) Closure

	1959		1960
	No.	%	No.	%
No initial action possible or necessary	1,583	26.3	1,564	29.0
No further action possible or necessary	224	26.3	253	29.0
Discharged from ward after observation	1,222	17.8	846	13.5
Transferred to general hospital ward	71	1.0	56	0.9
Other continued care	90	1.3	83	1.3
Out-patient (psychiatric) and miscellaneous action recommended by psychiatrist	103	1.5	133	2.1
Admitted to psychiatric hospital—
(a) as voluntary or informal patient	2,307	33.5	2,238	35.9
(b) on temporary certificate	25	0.4	2	0.0
(c) on urgency order	66	1.0	63	1.0
(d) absentee returned to hospital	9	0.1	6	0.1
(e) court order	8	0.1	27	0.4
(/) certified (sects. 14/16)	1,121	16.3	829	13.3
(g) for treatment (sect. 26, Mental Health Act, 1959)	—	—	106	1.7
Died	51	0.7	40	0.6
Miscellaneous	—	—	10	0.2
	6,880	100.0	6,256	100.0

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Mental Deficiency Acts and Mental Health Act, 1959
(Subnormal and severely subnormal persons)

Table: Persons referred during the year—The following table shows the sources from which persons were referred under the Mental Deficiency Acts (up to 31 October, 1960) and under the Mental Health Act, 1959 as subnormal or severely subnormal.

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Persons referred during the year—The following table shows the sources from which persons were referred under the Mental Deficiency Acts (up to 31 October, 1960) and under the Mental Health Act, 1959 as subnormal or severely subnormal.

Source of information	1959	1960
Local education authority—
Reported under section 57 of the Education Act, 1944	396	231
Referred for voluntary supervision (or community care)	176	300
Police or Courts	24	32
Hospitals, residential nurseries, etc.	80	80
Miscellaneous	193	182
Total referred	869	825

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London County Council 1960

Table: Table (iii) Initial action*

Table: Table (iv) Closure

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Table: Persons referred during the year—The following table shows the sources from which persons were referred under the Mental Deficiency Acts (up to 31 October, 1960) and under the Mental Health Act, 1959 as subnormal or severely subnormal.