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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Enfield 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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| Mentally III | Subnormal and Severely Subnormal | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under age 16 yrs. | Aged 16 yrs. to 64 yrs. | Aged 65 yrs. and over | Total | Under age 16 yrs. | Aged 16 yrs. and over | Total | ||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| 1. Number of patients under care on 31st December, 1967 | - | 3 | 115 | 159 | 7 | 27 | 311 | 106 | 82 | 107 | 118 | 413 |
| 2. (a) Attending day training centre | - | - | 7 | 4 | - | - | 11 | 46 | 36 | 45 | 50 | 177 |
| (b) Awaiting admission | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 26 |
| 3. (a) Resident in L.H.A. home/ hostel | - | - | 8 | 6 | - | - | 14 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| (b) Awaiting residence in L.H.A. home/hostel | - | - | 4 | 4 | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - |
| (c) Resident at L.H.A. expense in other residential homes/ hostels | - | - | 7 | 6 | - | - | 13 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 23 |
| (d) Resident at L.H.A. expense by boarding out in private household | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | 15 | 23 |
| 4. Receiving home visits and not included in (2) or (3) | - | 3 | 88 | 138 | 7 | 27 | 263 | 45 | 37 | 40 | 36 | 158 |
| 5. No. of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.67 | ||||||||||||
| (a) In urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| (b) Not in urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 6. No. of admissions for temporary residential care, e.g. to relieve the family, during 1967 | ||||||||||||
| (a) To N.H.S. Hospitals | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 22 |
| (b) Elsewhere | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 2 |