Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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TABLE II
Subnormal and Severely Subnormal Patients under Local Authority Care at 31st December, 1966
Subnormal | 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 1966 | 31 | 18 | 77 | 72 | 198 | 41 | 34 | 31 | 37 | 143 |
2. (a) Attending day training centre | 16 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 49 | 27 | 13 | 7 | 71 | |
Awaiting entry thereto | 1 | — | 2 | — | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
(b) Resident in a residential training centre | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | — | 3 |
Awaiting residence therein | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
(c) Receiving home training | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Awaiting home training | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
(d) Resident in L.H.A. home/ hostel | — | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
Awaiting residence in L.H.A. home/hostel | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Resident at L.H.A. expense in other residential homes/hostels | — | — | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Resident at L.H.A. expense by boarding out in private household | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 4 | — | 2 | 1 | 7 |
Receiving home visits and not included (a) to (d) | 10 | 8 | 55 | 47 | 120 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 25 | 42 |
3. No. of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.66: In urgent need of hospital care | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | 2 |
Not in urgent need of hospital care | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
4. No. of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the family) during 1966: To N.H.S. Hospitals | — | — | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
Elsewhere | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 3 |