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A programme on healthy living, commenced last year, was continued at the Authority's Mother and
Baby Home. This is a useful and worthwhile channel of communication.
Speakers were requested and provided for various outside organisations. Co-operation continues
with a voluntary organisation concerned with cervical cytology, providing speakers, audio-visual aids,
leaflets and other publicity material. Advanced first-aid lectures were given to the Red Cross, and
lectures on childbirth to St. John's ambulance drivers.
Visual Aids
Two useful leaflets concerning deaf children and their parents were produced by the health education
section in co-operation with Dr. Fisch of the audiology unit. These were printed by the Libraries
Department. Other authorities have shown interest in the leaflets and are purchasing these from the
Borough.
The Section has produced a set of slideson the various services provided by the Health Department;
these are extensively used for trainees in the Borough and pupil midwives.
In the latter part of the year the Health Education Officer was seconded to do a special course of
Advanced Study in Content and Method of Health Education at the Institute of Education, London
University. In her absence her assistant took over the day-to-day running of the section.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Psychiatric services have continued to develop in the Borough, with extended out-patients clinics
and facilities at the North Middlesex Hospital, the Prince of Wales's Hospital and a small in-patient
unit at St. Ann's Hospital. These additional services facilitate keeping the patients in the area in
which they live when they become ill. Access by the patient to out-patient departments for psychiatric
medicine is therefore much easier ana advice can be more readily sought, and it, of course, means that
families can visit their relations more conveniently and with less expense when the unit is actually in
theBorough. Dr. Seidel, Principal Medical Officer for Mental Health is attached to these three hospitals
in the capacity of Assistant Physician in Psychiatric Medicine.
Publications
A detailed edition by Dr. U.P. Seidel of Mental Subnormality in Childhood was published in the
International Journal of Social Psychiatry Volume 13 No. 1 1966/67.
The Social Workers
The establishment consists of a Chief Mental Welfare Officer, a Deputy Chief Mental Welfare
Officer, two Senior Mental Welfare Officers and six Mental Welfare Officers. During the year there was
again a good deal of staff movement. Two of the Mental Welfare Officers were seconded to the training
course for a period of two years, one by this Authority and one by the Authority in whose area he lives.
The volume of work increases, this is due not so much to increased incidence, but to recognition of the
value of the Community Care Service.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Day Centre
The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association's Day Centre at Mitchley Road has proved most
successful during the year, providing not only relief from isolation for selective patients, but also a
climate conducive to rehabilitation which assists patients to return to normal employment. At the end
of the year there were 20 Haringey patients attending this Centre. Through the efforts of the organisers
a number of patients have successfully returned to take up their places in the community and have
returned to full employment.
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