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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
Haringey 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Haringey]
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The long-established Roundabouts Club for sub-normals which is run by the Hornsey Society for
Mentally Handicapped Children hopes to be moving into new premises early in the new year.
Late in the year, the newly formed Haringey East Society for Mentally Handicapped Children opened
its first Youth Club, the Golden Gate Club, at the Arts Centre, Lordship Lane.
There is, inaddition, aclubfor Educationally Sub-normal Children functioning at Earlsmead School,
Broad Lane.
| Referred by | Mentally III | Sub-normal and severely sub-normal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| General practitioners | - | - | 90 | 152 | 242 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment | - | - | 25 | 46 | 71 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Hospitals, after or during outpatient or day treatment | - | - | 33 | 48 | 81 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Local education authorities | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Police and courts | 1 | - | 30 | 16 | 47 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Other sources | - | - | 95 | 126 | 221 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 26 |
| TOTALS | 2 | - | 273 | 388 | 663 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 59 |
| Referred by | Mentally III | Sub-normal and severely sub-normal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under age 16 | .Aged 16 and over | Total | Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| (a) Total Number | - | - | 113 | 157 | 270 | 49 | 68 | 209 | 169 | 495 |
| (b) (1) attending day training centre | _ | - | - | _ | _ | 26 | 49 | 44 | 25 | 144 |
| (II) awaiting entry thereto | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 23 |
| (c) (1) resident in residential training care | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 |
| (li) awaiting residence therein | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| (d) (i) receiving home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| (II) awaiting home training | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| (e) (1) resident In L.A. home/ hostel | _ | _ | _ | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| (li) awaiting residence in L.A. home/hostel | _ | _ | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| (Ili) resident at L.A. expense In other residential homes/ hostels | - | - | 10 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| (iv) resident at L.A. expense by boarding out in private household | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| (f) receiving home visits and not Included under (b) to (e) | - | - | 102 | 148 | 250 | 5 | 9 | 152 | 129 | 295 |