Table: TABLE IMentally III Patients under Local Authority care at 31st December, 1969.
TABLE I
Mentally III Patients under Local Authority care at 31st December, 1969.
| Mentally III | Elderly Mentally Infirm | Total |
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| Under age 16 | Over age 16 | Total |
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| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. |
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| 1. Number of patients under care at 31st December, 1969 | 4 | 2 | 143 | 291 | 440 | 66 | 80 | 146 |
| 2. (a) Attending day training centre | — | — | 1 | - | 1 | 19 | 35 | 54 |
| Awaiting entry thereto | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| (b) Resident in a residential training centre | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Awaiting residence therein | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| (c) Receiving home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Awaiting home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| (d) Resident in L.HA. Home/hostel | - | - | 5 | 5 | 10 | - | - | - |
| Awaiting residence in L.H.A. home/hostel | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Resident at L.H.A. expense in other residential homes/hostels | - | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - | - |
| Resident at L.H.A. expense by boarding out in private household | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Receiving home visits and not included (a) to (d) | 4 | 2 | 135 | 278 | 419 | 43 | 42 | 85 |
| 3. No. of Patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.69:In urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Not in need of hospital care | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 4. No. of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the family) during 1969:To N.H.S. Hospitals | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 13 | 16 | 29 |
| Elsewhere | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
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