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The furnished maisonette was opened and took its first patients in
September. They have settled down and have quickly become part of the
community.
The weekly psychiatric social club continues to flourish and has doubled
its membership. Activities during the year have included theatre trips, film
shows, play reading, make-up demonstrations, talks and demonstrations from the
Milk Marketing Board, and a visit by the Morris Dancers.
Talks were given by mental welfare officers to groups of student nurses,
to pre-retirement courses, to schools, and to women's groups, etc.
During the year, medical students from Barts,who are on a residential
placement at Warley Hospital,have spent some time in the mental health section.
Adult Training Centre
The programme at the centre consisted of woodwork, leatherwork, basketry,
needlework, housewifery, i.e. cooking, laundry, shopping, tea-making, etc.
Contract work included stripping small H.P. motors to be returned for reassembly,
and the closing of plastic caps and assembling of Mum tubes. The money earned
on contracts is distributed amongst all the trainees at the centre, and payments
vary from 2s.6d. for the lower-grade trainee to 10/- and £1 for the higher-grade
trainee. The amount earned for 1966 was between £900 and £1,000.
Certain trainees were taken from time to time to visit the factories from
where we get the contracts, so they might see the machinery that is used. On two
mornings each week the trainees visit the local sports centre where they are
supervised by qualified staff. A visit was paid to a theatre in London to see
Cinerama.
The trainees and staff had a day at Minnis Bay in June, but unfortunately
the weather was not as good as we had hoped. At the end of April the trainees
and staff spent a very enjoyable week at St. Mary's Bay, Dymchurch.
A Christinas party was held at the centre for trainees and their parents, and
another for the trainees only. All the trainees were invited to a further
Christmas party at the Assembly Hall, Barking.
A social club is held every Monday evening for both trainees and their
parents, and the trainees are picked up at home and taken back home after the
club by a mini-bus,which was bought from money given for the benefit of the boys
and girls.
CIVIL DEFENCE
Close liaison has been maintained between the health department and the
Civil Defence Corps of this borough.
The following are details of First Aid and Home Nursing Courses, etc., run
by the Civil Defence Corps and the health department:-
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