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Every effort is made to arrange for admission of patients to hospital informally,
and 143 patients were so admitted in addition to 109 compulsorily removed to
hospital by the mental welfare officers under Part IV of the Mental Health Act, 1959.
All the mental welfare officers are approved by the London Boroughs of Barnet
and Redbridge to facilitate dealing with Enfield patients at Friern Hospital, which
is within the administrative area of Barnet, and at Claybury and Goodmayes
hospitals, which are within the administrative area of Redbridge.
Day Rehabilitation Centres
No provision exists in the borough at present. The demand has been considered
in the Ten-Year Plan, in which three workshops or occupation centres and a day
centre for the elderly mentally disordered are scheduled. The day centre organised
by the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association continues at premises in Tottenham,
in the London Borough of Haringey. Eleven Enfield residents commenced attendance
during the year, nine ceased and six were in attendance at the end of the year,
the cost being borne by the Council. During the year arrangements were agreed
for sponsorship of four Enfield residents at the Association's Industrial Education
Unit at Bethnal Green but only one person was in daily attendance at the Unit at
the end of the year. Mention is made later in this report of the use for the mentally
ill of the facilities at the Council's Adult Training Centre.
Social Centres or Clubs
Mental Welfare Officers supervise the running of two clubs and report a
satisfactory year's activities.
One club is held every Thursday from 7.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Central
Clinic, Plevna Road, Edmonton, the weekly attendance being between ten and
twenty persons. The other club is held every Monday from 7.30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
at the Junior Training School, with a weekly attendance of between 25 and 50
persons.
Residential Accommodation
The "Windsmill" Recuperative Hostel, opened in January, 1966, has places
for 26 persons, men and women. The residents are normally referred from psychiatric
hospitals and are usually considered to be capable of working. They are encouraged
to resume their places in society with increased confidence.
The Principal Medical Officer, the Principal Mental Welfare Officer and the
Warden consider the suitability of each patient for admission usually in consultation
with Dr. Kelsey, the Council's psychiatric adviser on mental illness. Commencing
in August, to meet the demands of an increased occupancy at the hostel, arrangements
were made for Dr. Sheila D. Miles. Assistant Psychiatric Adviser to attend
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