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 Brent]
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Table 19
Number of patients referred during year ended 31st December, 1966.
Mentally ill | Sub-normal and severely sub-normal | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | Under age 16 | Aged 16 and over | Total | |||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
General practitioners | 3 | 1 | 114 | 273 | 391 | - | - | - | - | - |
Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment | - | - | 35 | 76 | 111 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
Hospitals, after or during out-patient or day treatment | - | - | 45 | 95 | 140 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | 10 |
Local education authorities | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 22 |
Police and courts | — | — | 33 | 27 | 60 | - | - | - | - | - |
Other sources | — | — | 97 | 203 | 300 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 25 |
Total | 3 | 1 | 324 | 674 | 1,002 | 27 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 59 |
Table 20
Work of Mental Welfare Officers and Mental Health Social Workers.
(a) Mental Illness: | |
Visits made by mental welfare officers | 3,384 |
Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers | 196 |
Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers | 258 |
(b) Mental sub-normality: | |
Visits to those under Council's community care by mental welfare officers and mental health social workers | 1,024 |
WELFARE OF THE BLIND
Table 21
Classification of Registered Blind Persons by Age Groups
Age Group | No. |
---|---|
Under 5 | 4 |
5—15 | 10 |
16—20 | 10 |
21—29 | 13 |
30—39 | 21 |
40—49 | 45 |
50—59 | 80 |
60—64 | 45 |
65—69 | 59 |
70—79 | 119 |
80—84 | 48 |
85—89 | 57 |
90 and over | 36 |
Total | 547 |