[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 112

London County Council 1964

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

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Table (iii)— Hospital admissions dealt with by mental health social workers informally or under sees. 25, 26 and 29 of the Mental Health Act, 1959

	Initial disposal to hospital						Final disposal to hospital
	Under 65 years		65 years and over		Total		Under 65 years		65 years and over		Total
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Informal admission	632	21.8	206	34.1	838	240	1,764	83.6	499	95.8	2,263	86.0
Informal admission	(770)	(23.8)	(247)	(35.0)	(1,017)	(25.8)	(2,033)	(84.6)	(563)	(94.8)	(2,596)	(86.6)
Compulsory admission:
For observation (sec. 25)	770	26.6	207	34.3	977	27.9	–	–	–	–	–	–
For observation (sec. 25)	(743)	(23.0)	(230)	(32.6)	(973)	(24.7)	—	—	—	—	—	—
Emergency admission (sec. 29)	1,399	48.4	184	30.4	1,583	45.2	–	–	–	–	–	–
Emergency admission (sec. 29)	(1,649)	(50.9)	(225)	(32.0)	(1,874)	(47.5)	—	—	—	—	—	—
For treatment (sec. 26)	93	3.2	7	1.2	100	2.9	345	16.4	22	4.2	367	14.0
For treatment (sec. 26)	(76)	(2.3)	(3)	(0.4)	(79)	(2.0)	(371)	(15.4)	(31)	(5.2)	(402)	(13.4)
Total	2,894	100.0	604	100.0	3,498	100.0	2,109	100.0	521	100.0	2,630	100.0
Total	(3,238)	(100.0)	(705)	(100.0)	(3,943)	(100.0)	(2,404)	(100.0)	(594)	(100.0)	(2,998)	(100.0)

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Table (iv)— Disposal of cases referred specifically for community care

	1964		1963
	No.	%	No.	%
Hospital care:
Informal admission	84	3.0	73	3.4
Compulsory admission	40	1.4	33	1.5
Psychiatric out-patient clinic or day hospital	23	0.8	55	2.6
Community care of mental health service	2,025	72.9	1,634	75.8
Other community care, e.g., Welfare or Children's depts., general practitioner, probation officer, etc.	57	2.0	70	3.2
No further action	554	19.9	290	135
No. of persons involved	2,783	100.0	2,155	100.0

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(b) Mentally subnormal and severely subnormal

	1964			1963
		No.	%		No.	%
Hospital care		55	4.6		67	5.7
Community care of mental health service:
Residential home, hostel, convent, etc.	42	902*	76.3	49	924*	77.3
Attendance at training centre	61			78
Receiving visits from m.h.s.w	885			895
Other types of community care	24			24
Other community care, e.g., Welfare or Children's depts., general practitioner, probation officer, etc.		68	5.7		45	3.8
No further action		159	13.4		158	13.2
Miscellaneous		—	—		—	—
No. of persons involved		1,184	100.0		1,194	100.0
*Number of persons; some cases are being visited as well as receiving some other form of care.