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
Mentally Handicapped Patients under Local Authority Care at 31st December, 1970
| Subnormal | Severely Subnormal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under age 16 | Over age 16 | Total | Under age 16 | Over age 16 | Total | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||
| 1. Number of patients under care at 31st December, 1970 | 43 | 26 | 109 | 91 | 269 | 54 | 48 | 46 | 41 | 189 |
| 2. (a) Attending day training Centre | 21 | 14 | 24 | 28 | 87 | 34 | 34 | 25 | 17 | 110 |
| Awaiting entry thereto | 2 | 3 | 3 | — | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| (b) Resident in a residential | ||||||||||
| training centre | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Awaiting residence therein | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| (c) Receiving home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Awaiting home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | - | 3 | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Awaiting residence in L.H.A. home/hostel | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Resident at L.H.A. expense in other residential homes/ hostels | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
| Resident at L.H.A. expense by boarding out in private household | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Receiving home visits and not included (a) to (d) | 17 | 8 | 73 | 50 | 148 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 56 |
| 3. No. of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.70: | ||||||||||
| In urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| Not in urgent need of hospiital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 4. No. of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the family) during 1970: | ||||||||||
| To N.H.S. Hospitals | — | — | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 26 |
| Elsewhere | - | — | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 |