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 18
MENTAL HEALTH
Patients under Local Authority Care at 31st December, 1970
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 | I- | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
1 Number of patients under care at 31st December, 1970 | — | — | 125 | 232 | 357 | 169 | 87 | 201 | 184 | 641 |
2 Attending training centre or day centre | — | — | 24 | 26 | 50 | 105 | 51 | 56 | 61 | 273* |
3 Awaiting entry thereto | — | — | 2 | 8 | 10 | — | — | 5 | 4 | 9 |
4 Receiving home training | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
5 Awaiting home training | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
6 Resident in L.A. home/hostel | — | — | 12 | 16 | 28 | — | — | 8 | 3 | 11 |
7 Awaiting residence in L.A. home/hostel | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
8 Resident at L.A. expense in other homes/hostels | — | — | 8 | 12 | 20 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 40 |
9 Resident at L.A. expense by boarding out in private household | — | — | 5 | 7 | 12 | 2 | — | 5 | 6 | 13 |
10 Attending day hospitals | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | 2 |
11 Receiving home visits and not included in lines 2—10 | — | — | 73 | 162 | 235 | 42 | 32 | 120 | 99 | 293 |
No. of patients in L.A. area on waiting list for admission to hospital at 31.12.70 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
In urgent need of hospital care | — | — | 3 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | — | — | 14 |
Not in urgent need of hospital care | — | — | — | — | — | 15 | 5 | — | 4 | 24 |
No. of admissions for temporary residential care (e.g. to relieve the family) during 1970 to N.H.S. Hospitals | — | — | — | — | — | 59 | 29 | 3 | 7 | 98 |
Elsewhere | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | 2 | — | 7 |
* Includes patients attending centres administered by other local authorities.