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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 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brent]
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Table 18
MENTAL HEALTH
Patients under Local Authority care at 31st December, 1968
| 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 | |||
| 1 Number of patients under care at 31st December, 1968 | 4 | 5 | 378 | 685 | 1,072 | 137 | 75 | 185 | 177 | 574 |
| 2 Attending training centre or day centre | - | - | 12 | 23 | 35 | 69 | 38 | 51 | 44 | 202* |
| 3 Awaiting entry thereto | - | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 14 | 28 | 27 | 99 |
| 4 Receiving home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 Awaiting home training | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 6 Resident in L.A. home/hostel | - | - | 9 | 10 | 19 | - | - | 7 | - | 7 |
| 7 Awaiting residence in L.A. home/hostel | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 8 Resident at L.A. expense in other homes/hostels | - | - | 5 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 26 |
| 9 Resident at L.A. expense by boarding out in private household | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 22 |
| 10 Attending day hospitals | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 11 Receiving home visits and not included in lines 2—10 | 3 | 5 | 326 | 635 | 969 | 24 | 19 | 89 | 81 | 213 |
| No. of patients in L.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31,12,68 In urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 33 |
| Not in urgent need of hospital care | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 16 |
| No. of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the family) during 1968 to N.H.S. Hospitals | - | - | - | - | - | 53 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 77 |
| Elsewhere | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
* Includes patients attending centres administered bv other local authorities.