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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

Brent 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brent]

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Table: Table 19Number of patients referred during year ended 31st December, 1967.

Table 19

Number of patients referred during year ended 31st December, 1967.

Mentally illSub-normal and severely sub-normal
Under age 16Aged 16 and overTotalUnder age 16Aged 16 and overTotal
MFMFMFMF
General practitioners221403024461—1—2
Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment--4894142--145
Hospitals, after or during out - patient or day treatment--518313441-16
Local education authorities-----436215
Police and courts——161026-----
Other sources211172223421085326
Total433727111,0901912131054

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Table 20
Work of Mental Welfare Officers and Mental Health Social Workers.
(a) Mental Illness:
Visits made by mental welfare officers 4,116
Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers 258
Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers 221
(b) Mental sub-normality:
Visits to those under Council's community care by mental welfare officers and mental health
social workers 1,648
WELFARE OF THE BLIND

Table: Table 21Classification of Registered Blind Persons by Age Groups

Table 21

Classification of Registered Blind Persons by Age Groups

Age GroupNo.
Under 54
5—1511
16 — 209
21—2920
30 — 3917
40 — 4944
50 — 5973
60 — 6447
65—6949
70 — 79143
80 — 8457
85 — 8942
90 and over50
Total566