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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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Table: TABLE 26 MENTAL HEALTHPatients referred to Health Department during year ended 31st December, 1967

TABLE 26 MENTAL HEALTHPatients referred to Health Department during year ended 31st December, 1967

Referred byMentally IIISubnormal and Severely Subnormal
Under age 16Aged/16 and overTotalUnder age 16Aged/16 and overTotal
MFMFMFMF
General Practitioners11116154272—1146
Hospitals, on discharge from inpatient treatment--62119181--224
Hospitals, after or during outpatient or day treatment--305585--314
Local Education Authority—————17——8
Police and Courts——358—————
Other Sources—756106169——123
TOTAL18267439715187925

Table: TABLE 27 MENTAL HEALTHWork of Mental Welfare Officers

TABLE 27 MENTAL HEALTHWork of Mental Welfare Officers

(a) Mental Illness :
Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals108
Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals111
Number of visits and office interviews5,834
(b) Mental Subnormality :
Number of visits and office interviews to those under the Council's community care1,137

Table: TABLE 28 DOMESTIC HELPNumber of Cases in which Domestic Help was Provided during 1967

TABLE 28 DOMESTIC HELPNumber of Cases in which Domestic Help was Provided during 1967

Aged 65 years or over at time of first visitAged Under 65 years on First VisitTotal
MaternityChronic SickTuberculousMentally DisorderedOthers
1,745171232732642,422