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practice is helping to break down popular prejudice against
Mental Hospitals, which unfortunately still exists to some extent
When it is more generally appreciated that patients can go to the
Mental Hospital of their own free will and leave when they so
desire, and that they will receive treatment according to the best
scientific methods of today, the Mental Hospital will come to be
regarded as a Hospital in the true sense of the word, a place where
patients are treated, healed, and cured
As will be noticed from the statistics, a considerable proportion
of the cases investigated at the Clinic were children
This is one of the most promising of the Clinic's activities,
especially from the standpoint of mental hygiene These problem
and maladjusted children are the future neurotics, delinquents,
and general social misfits, and their treatment and management
constitute an urgent and vital need in any community It was
noticeable that the economic factor played an important part in
the genesis of the nervous illnesses of many of the children
examined at the Clinic This was revealed in their malnutrition,
and general debility It requires little imagination to appreciate
that bad or inadequate nutrition must inevitably adversely affect
the mental constitution, and so foster those psychological difficulties
which repercuss gravely in adult life We have had the
cooperation of the London Child Guidance Clinic in dealing with
the treatment of stammering, the estimation of intelligence, and
in treating cases which were beyond the resources of the Clinic
Referrals to the Clinic as in past years have come chiefly from
the general practitioners in West Ham, the Public Health Medical
Staff, Court Probation Officers, Whipps Cross Hospital, and the
Invalid and Crippled Children's Hospital A certain number of
patients discharged from the Mental Hospital have kept in contact
with the medical staff through the Clinic, and this has constituted
a valuable form of "aftercare" treatment To the
various doctors in private practice and in the Public Health
Service, who have cooperated with the Clinic, we offer our thanks
and grateful appreciation
Total number of new cases examined in 1935 67
Total number of consultations, therapeutic and diagnostic 302
Types of Mental Illness
Psychoses—
Schizophrenia 6
Melancholia 12
Paraphrenia 2
Epilepsy 2
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