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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

Kingston upon Thames 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]

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centre to the National Association for Mentally Handicapped Children
Holiday Centre at Pirates Spring, Dymchurch. They were very fortunate
with the weather and all reports point to a most successful holiday.
Residential Care

Table: There are no hostels in the borough for the mentally subnormal, but financial responsibility was accepted for residential care of subnormal patients unable to be cared for at home and not requiring hospital admission, as follows:

There are no hostels in the borough for the mentally subnormal, but financial responsibility was accepted for residential care of subnormal patients unable to be cared for at home and not requiring hospital admission, as follows:

MaleFemale
Holmbush (private Home for subnormals)2-
St.Teresa's Convent-3
The Guardianship Society-2
Privately boarded out-1

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I should like to express my thanks to Dr.D.S.Sharpe, Acting
Physician Superintendent at Botleys Park Hospital, and to Dr.B.H.Kirman,
Consultant Psychiatrist at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton,
for their help in the assessment and placement of urgent cases.