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Other subjects dealt with in Circulars issued by Government
Departments included the following:
Ministry of Health.
Annual Reoorts of Medical Officers of Health; Food Hygiene Code of
Practice (Poultry Dressing and Packing); Poliomyelitis and Services for
Old People (Co-operation between housing, local health and welfare
authorities and voluntary organisations).
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
Official certificates under the Public Health (imported Food)
Regulations in respect of Bulgaria & Iceland; Approved Chemical Agents.
Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
The Clean Air Act, 1956; The Economic Situation; Turnstiles in
Public Conveniences.
Home Office.
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933.
General Register Office.
Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases (weekly and quarterly
returns); Transfer of Births, Deaths and Still-births; Vital Statistics
Annual Reports of Medical Officeis of Health.
PROVISION OF PSYCHO-GERIATRIC SERVICES - ST. CLEMENT'S HOSPITAL.
(a) DUNDEE WARD.
For a long time, the needfor making provision for the elderly
psychiatric patient has been recognised in this area, as in many others.
In September, 1961, such a unit was inaugurated at St. Clement's Hospital,
Bow Road, to serve the boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney.
Under the energetic influence of a consultant psychiatrist, Dr. W. Ford
Robertson, from Long Grove, Epsom, and his colleague, Dr. J. Sawle Thomas,
a ward for the admission of 12 female patients was opened. Provision has
since been made for 10 male patients. The intention from the outset was
stressed, viz. by careful selection of patients those amenable to treatment
would be admitted, with the hope that they would be able to return to their
family and/or community care in a short period- i.e. a maximum of 6 weeks.
Obviously, were this criteria not laid down, these 22 beds would rapidly be
filled with chronically sick and disturbed patients for whom, unfortunately,
other provisions are inadequate at present.
Hence, admission has been controlled by doctors attached to the unit,
who either visit patients in their own homes or see them in the out-patients
department at St. Clement's at the request of family doctors.
From inception the following admissions and discharges occurred during
the remainder of 1961:-
Admissions: Male - 24
Female - 43
Discharges: Male - 14
Female - 34
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