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course run by the Essex Welfare Department on Communication
with the Deaf. As a result it was possible to provide social work
help directly for deaf people known to the Department to be in
special need of help.
Students
During 1966 the social work section provided field placements
under qualified supervision for eight students from the following
Universities etc:— London University, Nottingham University and
Barking Regional College of Technology.
COMMUNITY CARE OF THE MENTALLY DISORDERED
The importance of making medical and social care easily
available to the patient suffering from mental illness, in accordance
with the Mental Health Act, 1959 cannot be over emphasised,
also admissions to Hospital, for treatment, on an informal basis
rather than under Order.
(a) Mentally III
The Hospitals serving the Borough are Warley Hospital and
the Ingrebourne Centre at St. George's Hospital.
(b) Links with Warley Hospital
The liaison and after care arrangements with the Hospital and
the Community Care Services were revised in October 1966
and it was established that referral procedures have improved
considerably. Monthly staff meetings are held, at which a
member of the Hospital's Medical Committee attends.
During the Mental Health Week, 1966, the Hospital provided
exhibition stands displaying the work of a Psychiatric
Hospital. These stands were exhibited in the Belford Training
Centre and in the Central Library, Romford.
(c) Links with Ingrebourne Centre
Regular Group meetings have continued to be held at this
centre and it has been possible to arrange for a psychiatric
social worker to attend the meetings, thus establishing a
regular liaison for discharge referrals with the Centre. Regular
participation of two mental welfare officers, in group sessions,
with the Senior Citizens started in January 1966.
During the Mental Health Week 1966 the Centre organised an
open evening, thus participating in the educational programme
of the week.
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