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Haringey 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Haringey]

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Table: NUMBER OF PATIENTS UNDER LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY CARE AT 31 ST DECEMBER 1969

NUMBER OF PATIENTS UNDER LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY CARE AT 31 ST DECEMBER 1969

Referred byMENTALLY ILLSUBNORMAL AND SEVERLY SUBNORMAL
Under age 16Aged 16 and overTOTALUnder age 16Aged 16 and overTOTAL
MFMFMFMF
1. Total Number-1481522017368190167498
2. Attending workshops, day centres or training centres (including special units)--381155495551210
3. Awaiting entry to workshops, day centres, or training centres -(including special units)-----252268-
4. Receiving home training----------
5. Awaiting home training----------
6. Resident in L.A. home/hostel--358--9-9
7. Awaiting Residence in L.A. home/hostel__213-----
8. Resident in other home/hostel--121325249924
9. Boarded out in private household-----114814
10. Attending day hospital----------
11. Receiving home visits and not included in lines 2-10
(a) suitable to attend a training centre----------
(b) Others-1281251542210791202

Table: NUMBER OF PATIENTS AWAITING ENTRY TO HOSPITAL ADMITTED FOR TEMPORARY CARE DURING 1969

NUMBER OF PATIENTS AWAITING ENTRY TO HOSPITAL ADMITTED FOR TEMPORARY CARE DURING 1969

SEVERELY SUBNORMAL OR SUBNORMALTOTAL
Under age 16Aged 16 and over
MFMF
Number of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.69
(a) In urgent need of hospital care281112
(b) Not in urgent need of hospital care868729
(c) Total10149841
Number of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the family
(a) To N.H.S. hospitals7189842
(b) To L.A. residential accommodation--1-1
(c) Elsewhere442414
(d) Total1122121257

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Work of Mental Welfare Officers (1969)
(a) Mental Illness
Visits made by mental welfare officers
Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospital by mental welfare officers
Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers
5,757
167
132
(b) Mental Subnormality
Visits to those under community care by mental welfare officers 2,271
Rehabilitation Workshops
On the 31st December 1969, 31 men were employed at the workshops, excluding the manager and
the instructor. Of the three men who entered for training during the year, one was transferred to
the staff upon completion of the training, one left before completing the course and the training
was terminated in the third case. Two high grade mentally subnormal adults were employed as
porters in the workshops and one of these later left to take up employment in open industry.
Although there was a falling off of orders received during 1969 the goods supplied during the year
showed an increase due to outstanding orders at the beginning of the year. Orders received in
1969 amounted to £9,547 compared with £13,413 for 1968, and the value of goods delivered was
£16,246 compared with £12,619 the previous year.