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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 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: TABLE 26 MENTAL HEALTH Patients referred to Health Department during year ended 31st December, 1968

TABLE 26 MENTAL HEALTH Patients referred to Health Department during year ended 31st December, 1968

Referred byMentally IIISubnormal and Severely Subnormal
Under age 16Aged 16 and overTotalUnder age 16Aged 16 and overTotal
MFMFMFMF
General Practitioners——95164259-----
Hospitals, on discharge from in
patient treatment—33366102———11
Hospitals, after or during out
patient or day treatment—15588144—————
Local Education Authority1—3—495——14
Police and Courts——161531—————
Other Sources——921462383—81122
TOTAL1429447977812581237

Table: TABLE 27 MENTAL HEALTH Work of Mental Welfare Officers

TABLE 27 MENTAL HEALTH Work of Mental Welfare Officers

(a) Mental Illness :
Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals109
Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals143
Number of visits and office interviews6.963
(b) Mental Subnormality:
Number of visits and office interviews to those under the Council's community care1,492

Table: TABLE 28 DOMESTIC HELP Number of Cases in which Domestic Help was Provided during 1968

TABLE 28 DOMESTIC HELP Number of Cases in which Domestic Help was Provided during 1968

Aged 65 years or over at time of first visitAged Under 65 years on First Visit
MaternityChronic SickTuberculousMentally DisorderedOthersTotal
1,850117234932242,437