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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Harrow 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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TABLE I
Patients under Local Authority Care at 31st December 1965
| Mentally III | Subnormal and severely subnormal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||
| 1. Number of patients under care at 31st December 1965 | 1 | 1 | 58 | 134 | 194 | 56 | 42 | 114 | 113 | 325 |
| 2. (a) Attending day training centre | — | — | 3 | 5 | 8 | 36 | 35 | 36 | 25 | 135 |
| Awaiting entry thereto | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| (b) Resident in a residential training centre | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Awaiting residence therein | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (c) Receiving home training | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Awaiting home training | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | 6 | 2 | 8 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Awaiting residence in L.H.A. home/hostel | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Resident at L.H.A. expense in other residential homes/hostels | — | — | 2 | 5 | 7 | — | — | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| Resident at L.H.A. expense by boarding out in private household | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| Receiving home visits and not included (a) to id) | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | — | 6 |
| 3. No. of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.65: In urgent need of hospital care | — | — | — | 8 | 8 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Not in urgent need of hospital care | — | — | — | 17 | 17 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4. No. of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the family) during 1965: | ||||||||||
| To N.H.S. Hospitals | — | — | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| Elsewhere | — | — | 4 | 1 | 5 | — | 2 | — | 1 | 3 |