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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

During the year, expansion of the community services for the mentally
disordered continued with the opening of the assessment unit at the junior
training school and commencement of work on the erection of a purposebuilt
adult training centre.
The last in the cycle of three Mental Health Weeks was held on
9th-l 5th June, 1968, the theme for the week being "Targets for Tomorrow
—Research, Education, Prevention, Treatment and Care". As in previous
years, a full programme of events for the Week was arranged in conjunction
with the voluntary societies and Shenley and Leavesden Hospitals.
Messrs. Kodak Ltd., of Wealdstone, kindly loaned their demonstration
trailer for a mobile exhibition, depicting the work carried out by the local
authority and voluntary societies, which visited various parts of the
Borough. Messrs Kodak also kindly arranged its necessary removal from
site to site.
The Week and Exhibition was officially opened by Derek Nimmo on
Monday, June 10th, 1968, at a Coffee Morning, and Sopers of Harrow
Ltd., Station Road, Harrow, kindly allocated the use of their restaurant
for this purpose.
Open days and evenings were held at the mental health establishments
maintained by this Authority and the social clubs held within the Borough
were also open to the public.
The Harrow Branch of the League of Friends of Shenley Hospital
held a garden party at Letchford House, Headstone Lane, Harrow, on
Wednesday afternoon, 12th June, 1968. Also on that day, the local
catchment hospital for the mentally ill was opened to the public.
Events on Thursday, 13th June, 1968, included the formal opening
of the new assessment unit at the junior training school by the Deputy
Mayor, Councillor W. E. Jones, and in the evening, a new Gateway Club
was inaugurated at the Youth Centre, Great Road, Wealdstone. This club
is intended principally for educationally subnormal children.
Two very successful barbecues were held in the course of the week,
one on Monday night run by the Friends of Tanglewood for the children
who attend the Club held at Tanglewood Hostel, Common Road, Stanmore,
and the other which was held on Saturday evening, 15th June, by
the Harrow Association for Mental Health, and to which all who
participated in making the week such a success were invited. This also was
held in the grounds of Tanglewood Hostel