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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 1966
[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 |