[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brent] page 42

Brent 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brent]

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Table 19

Number of Patients Referred During Year Ended 31st December, 1969

	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	Total	M	F	M	F	Total
General practitioners	1	4	113	171	289	-	-	-	-	-
Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment	-	-	27	51	78	4	3	-	3	10
Hospitals, after or during out - patient or day treatment			47	92	139	2	4	-	-	6
Local education authorities	-	-	-	-	-	8	1	9	4	22
Police and courts	1	1	17	26	45	-	-	1	-	1
Other sources	-	-	196	227	423	11	8	6	-	25
Total	2	5	400	567	974	25	16	16	7	64

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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 and interviews with clients (home and office)	5,332
	Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers	206
	Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers	132
(b)	Mental sub-normality:
	Visits and interviews by mental health social workers	1,809

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WELFARE OF THE BLIND

Table 21

Classification of Registered Blind Persons by Age Groups