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, 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 | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
General practitioners | 1 | 1 | 91 | 167 | 260 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Hospitals, on discharge from in-patient treatment | 1 | 1 | 12 | 23 | 37 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 3 |
Hospitals, after or during out - patient or day treatment | - | 1 | 42 | 108 | 151 | 5 | 2 | - | - | 7 |
Local education authorities | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 23 |
Police and courts | — | 1 | 20 | 16 | 37 | — | — | — | — | — |
Other sources | 1 | 5 | 169 | 261 | 436 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 25 |
Total | 3 | 9 | 334 | 575 | 921 | 22 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 61 |
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) | 5,771 |
Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers | 219 |
Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers | 147 |
(b) Mental sub-normality: | |
Visits and interviews by mental health social workers | 1,987 |
WELFARE OF THE BLIND
Table 21
Age Group | No. |
---|---|
Under 5 | 5 |
5 — 15 | 8 |
16 — 20 | 4 |
21—29 | 20 |
30 — 39 | 19 |
40 — 49 | 36 |
50 — 59 | 61 |
60 — 64 | 52 |
65 —69 | 46 |
70 — 74 | 70 |
75 — 79 | 63 |
80 — 84 | 73 |
85 — 89 | 42 |
90 and over | 36 |
Total | 535 |