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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
Waltham Forest 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Waltham Forest]
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(b) Number of patients awaiting entry to hospital, or admitted for temporary residential care during 1970
| MENTALLY ILL | ELDERLY MEN TALLY INFI RM | PSYCHOPATHIC | MENTALLY HANDIC APPED | SEVERELY MENTALLY H AN DIC APPED | TO T AL | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNDER 16 | 16 & OVER | UNDER 16 | 16 & OVER | UNDER 16 | 16 & OVER | UNDER 16 | 16 a OVER | ||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | |
| A. Number of patients in L.H.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.70 (i) in urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | " | - | 3 | - | - | - | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| (ii) not in urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | * | 2 | 6 | 1 | - | 13 | 16 | 18 |
| (iii) Total | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | - | 5 | 6 | 1 | - | 17 | 24 | 20 |
| B. Number of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the fami ly) (i) to N.H.S. hospitals | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 3 | 7 | - | 15 | 2 | 1 1 | 10 | 54 | 21 | 30 |
| (ii) to L.A. residential accommodation | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 8 | - | - |
| (iii) elsewhere | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 39 | 72 |
| (iv) Total | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 75 | 60 | 102 |