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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
West Ham 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Proposed New Institution.
Of these cases the following are detained in institutions:—
| MALE. | Moral | FEMALE. | Moral | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FM. | Imb. | Idiots | Def. | F.M | IMb | Idiots. | def. | Total | |
| Brentry Colony | 16 | 3 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 21 |
| Stoke Park Colony | 2 | 9 | — | — | 7 | 10 | — | — | 28 |
| Whittington Hall | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 3 |
| Darenth Training Colony | 3 | 2 | — | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | 2 |
| Caterham Mental Hospital | 2 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 11 |
| Leavesden Mental Hospital | — | 2 | — | — | — | __ | — | — | 10 |
| Fountain Mental Hospital | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Princess Christian's Farm Colony | . 1 | — | — | — | — | — | __ | — | 2 |
| Helping Hand Home | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Etloe House | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Pield Heath House | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hillside, Buntingford | — | — | — | — | — | __ | — | — | 2 |
| Monkton Hall | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Besford Court | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ellen Terry Home | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Forest Gate Hospital | 14 | 10 | — | 2 | 11 | 15 | — | — | 54 |
| Roval Fort Home, Bristol | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rampton State Institution | 6 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 11 |
| Total | 153 | ||||||||
. This mstitu-ion is to accommodate 750 patients as follows :—
| Female adults | 240 |
| Male adults | 180 |
| Children, males | 100 |
| Children, females | 100 |
| Lowest grade, males and females | 58 |
| Hospital—General | 60 |
| Hospital—Cases of tuberculosis | 12 |
| 750 |
The layout consists of villas for male and female patients,
school with classrooms, recreation hall, kitchen block, including:
bakery, laundry and boiler house, mortuary, staff quarters, workshops
for male and female patients, hospital blocks for general
treatment, and for cases of tuberculosis, houses for Medical
Superintendent, Steward, Chief Engineer, and Chief Attendant,
Nurses' Home, and male nurses' quarters, maids' quarters, farm
buildings, also attendants' and labourers' cottages.
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