Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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, 1969 | 3 | - | 94 | 122 | 1 | - | 220 | 70 | 61 | 104 | 110 | 345 |
2. (a) Attending day training centre | - | - | 11 | 8 | 1 | - | 20 | 55 | 38 | 58 | 63 | 214 |
(b) Awaiting admission | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 6 | 2 | — | 13 |
3. (a) Resident in L.H.A. home/ hostel | - | - | 5 | 7 | - | - | 12 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 7 |
(b) Awaiting residence in L.H.A. home/hostel | - | - | 1 | - | - | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | - | 1 |
(c) Resident at L.H.A. expense in other residential homes/ hostels | - | - | 8 | 6 | - | - | 14 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 25 |
(d) Resident at L.H.A. expense by boarding out in private household | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 16 | 23 |
4. Receiving home visits and not included in (2) or (3) | 3 | - | 69 | 100 | - | - | 172 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 21 | 62 |
5. No. of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.69 | ||||||||||||
(a) In urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | 6 |
(b) Not in urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
6. No. of admissions for temporary residential care, e.g. to relieve the family, during 1969 | ||||||||||||
(a) To N.H.S. Hospitals | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 24 |
(b) Elsewhere | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 5 |