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(1) board and lodging charges:—patients in psychiatric hospitals
who go out to work, pay maximum of £3 15s. p.w. In
hostel, charges vary according to earnings: a resident earning
£16 p.w. may pay £8 p.w.; another earning £6 pays less than £2.
Deductions of two-sevenths from the charge for board/lodging
is made when the resident spends weekend away from hostel.
(2) Collier Lodge provides a short-stay hostel care and, at
first, it was thought that a placement of up to six months duration
was desirable. The lack of suitable referrals has led to
an alteration in the standards of selection, based also on experience
that some residents will take much longer than others
to adjust to the responsibilities of living away from hospitals
(i.e. adjustment to independence and free choice of action).
The duration of short-stay placement is beginning to be interpreted
as of up to two year hostel care in appropriate cases,
which makes selection of applicants somewhat wider.
(3) While in 1965 shortage of Warden staff persisted, the number
of residents was advisedly kept constant between 12-16.
An Assistant Warden was appointed towards the end of 1965
but the Warden and his wife left shortly after the Assistant's
appointment.
Admissions and discharges
Over the period 7th February, 1965, to 31st March, 1965, two
men and one woman were admitted from Barking, one man and
one woman from Redbridge and one woman from Waltham Forest,
one from Havering and one from Newhani.
Between 1st April, 1965, and 31st December, 1965, four admissions
were from Barking (three men and one woman), nine from
Essex (five men and four women), ten from Havering (five men
and five women), three from Redbridge (one man admitted twice,
and one woman also a re-admission), three from Waltham Forest
(one man and two women), and one man from Haringey. The
pattern of discharges is shown in the following table.

At 31st December, 1965, there were 11 residents in the hostel.
In 1965, out of the 58 referrals, 46 were offered a place but
only 38 were actually admitted. The remaining 12 were either
unsuitable for short-stay hostel care or failed to show interest in
coming to the hostel. The average stay was approximately 88 days
(three residents completed one year stay).
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