London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

referred to the medical officer concerned. Referrals from General Practitioners. Very few cases of the above type have as yet been referred to the Psychiatric Social Worker by the general practitioners. The Psychiatric Social Worker, as

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Individual conferences with Health. Visitors. Psychiatric Club, Owing to the lack of suitable patients the Psychiatric Cltib was suspended in August. It is hoped that in the future, given sufficient suitable patients, the Psychiatric Club

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The following details relate to the work of the Psychiatric Social Worker:-

Referrals

Bromley 1968

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Number of Psychiatric Interviews:

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December, 1968 153 Number of Home Visits: Psychiatric Social Worker 106 Educational Psychologists — Other Staff — Social Worker made 18 visits to different outside agents. Number of School Visits: Psychiatric Social Worker 14 Educational

Kingston upon Thames 1965

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Admissions to Psychiatric Hospitals

Quarter	Total Referred	Under Mental Health Act		Informal with Psychiatric Consultation
Quarter	Total Referred	Emergency	With Psychiatric Consultation	Informal with Psychiatric Consultation

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qualified psychiatric social worker, and during the year two university graduates with appropriate postgraduate diplomas joined the staff. Another member of staff, appointed on 1st April, is a psychiatric nurse of considerable experience who

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61 Admissions to Psychiatric Hospitals Quarter Total Referred Under Mental Health Act Informal with Psychiatric Consultation Emergency With Psychiatric Consultation 31st Jan to 31st March 24 22 2 Nil 1st April to 30th

Walthamstow 1946

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Supervision and Advice 15 P.S.W. 12 Remedial Coaching 4 Regular Psychiatric Treatment (cases still open) 10 Closed after Psychiatric Treatment 10 Psychiatric Treatment waiting list, December 31st 27 147 Cases seen 1943/45 and dealt with in

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TABLE I.—Analysis of 1946 figures

West Ham 1952

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Clinic Psychologist's school visits 31 Psychiatric Social Worker's school visits 24 Psychiatric Social Worker's home visits 64 Psychiatric Social Worker's foster home visits 17 Psychiatric Social Worker's other visits 44 Cases newly referred

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responsible for the after-care of patients requiring support for a very long period, due to their incomplete recovery or domestic problems. The Psychiatric Social Worker also attends once a week at the Psychiatric Out-patient Clinic, and this establishes

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employed by the Council and at Goodmayes Hospital work in the closest co-operation. Case discussion and the attendance of the Council's Psychiatric Social Worker at the Psychiatric Clinic which is run by the hospital has proved to be of the

East Ham 1953

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28.9.53. With the addition of another Child Therapist, Mrs. P. Cohen, B.A. who commenced duties on 2.11.53, the clinic staff were organised into two psychiatric teams, each consisting of a psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric social worker

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Number of attendances at Clinic (parents and children):-

London County Council 1955

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Four psychiatric social workers were employed full-time to interview and advise persons suffering from psychiatric illness needing help with their personal problems. During the year 268 new cases were referred from the following sources :

	1955	1954

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workers were employed full-time to interview and advise persons suffering from psychiatric illness needing help with their personal problems. During the year 268 new cases were referred from the following sources : 1955 1954 General practitioners

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treatment at 31st December 133 45 50 82 310 Discharged 139 48 79 114 380 No. of follow-ups 7 — 20 — 27 No. of home visits by psychiatric social worker 15 14 7 47 83 No. of school visits by staff 38 78 114 105 335 Disposal of patients Treatment completed 52 20 33

Malden and Coombe 1963

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Persons Males Females Males Females N.H.S. hospitals other than psychiatric. 2 54 7 47 7 35 Other hospitals, other than psychiatric. 1 16 3 13 3 9 Psychiatric hospitals (N.H.S. and other). 1 314 4 310 - 299 Homes only for old persons. 10 317 69 248

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INSTITUTIONS

	Number of Institutions	Total Population			Inmates only
	Number of Institutions	Persons	Males	Females	Males	Females

Hounslow 1972

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shll be able to get a domiciliary and community Psychiatric Nursing Service off the ground. This in part will make up for the difficulties that have arisen of late in the provision of adequate psychiatric social work services, and it is sad to

Sutton 1965

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discharged. Close co-operation with the psychiatric hospitals and the psychiatric day centre has been encouraging. The Senior Psychiatric Social Worker and two mental welfare officers have made regular attendances at the Cumberland Hospital

Walthamstow 1949

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Psychiatric Social Worker—Interviews and Visits

	Interviews	Home Visits	Other Calls

Lewisham 1971

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patients live—to psychiatric units in general hospitals, to day hospitals and to out-patient departments. Lewisham is not, unfortunately, very high on the list of areas likely to acquire a psychiatric unit in the near future, but the establishment

London County Council 1956

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homes to ensure the co-operation of the parents during out-of-school hours. Miss G. Clarkson and Miss P. Winterbottom, two of the psychiatric social workers allocated to schools for maladjusted children, write : The psychiatric social worker

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problems are found to have a psychiatric cause. The extent to which the advice of the Council's psychiatric social workers is being sought in this way has not been recorded in the figures below, which include only those cases interviewed personally

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occupational, social or personal problems associated with potential psychiatric breakdown or following psychiatric treatment are referred to the Council's psychiatric social workers. Particulars of the cases needing such help are given

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problem families and arrangements have been made for the psychiatric social workers employed in the Council's mental health service to provide, with the knowledge and consent of the general practitioner concerned, care and after-care

West Ham 1959

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Psychologist's interviews at Clinic 157 Psychiatric Social Worker's interviews at Clinic 265 Psychiatric Social Worker's Home Visits 51 Psychiatric Social Worker's School Visits 7 Psychiatric Social Worker's Other Visits 80 Remedial Coaching

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teaching Diploma of the National Association for Mental Health. Work Undertaken by the Psychiatric Social Worker. The work of the Psychiatric Social Worker has continued steadily throughout the year and most of the cases were referred from

London County Council 1954

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During the year 330 new cases of persons suffering from psychiatric illness were referred for help in domestic, social and unemployment problems from the following sources:

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additional psychiatric social worker on 1st January, 1954. Three psychiatric social workers were employed full time on these important duties throughout the year. They were based at the County Hall, and each dealt with all cases in one area of the

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schools and residential establishments A new boarding special school for maladjusted children—Pine End—was opened by the Education Officer and arrangements were made for it to be visited by a psychiatrist and a psychiatric social worker.

Walthamstow 1947

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TABLE 4 Number of interviews during 1947—Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Social Workers

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interviews during 1947—Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Social Workers Psychiatrists— Diagnostic interviews 99 Treatment interviews 438 Group — 4 children 10 Psychiatric Social Workers— Interviews 722 Home visits 174 Others 44 Waiting List,

Haringey 1966

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rehabilitative service. Next year another psychiatric social club will be formed at the Lutheran Church Hall, Tottenham, N.15. This will be in conjunction with the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association and the mental welfare officers, and various

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Illness Visits made by mental welfare officers 5,372 Compulsory admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers 194 Informal admissions to psychiatric hospitals by mental welfare officers 167 (b) Mental Subnormality Visits

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Psychiatrists Consultant psychiatrists from the area's Catchment Psychiatric Hospitals and Psychiatric Units at the North Middlesex,Prince of Wales's.Whittington and Halliwick Hospitals provide out-patient psychiatric and domiciliary

Finchley 1959

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cars to and from the psychiatric hospitals. The psychiatric social workers are largely concerned with the after-care and rehabilitation of persons discharged after undergoing treatment either in hospitals or at out-patient clinics but

West Ham 1948

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Roubicek. STATISTICS Interviews at Clinic - Psychiatric 528 Psychologist's 385 Psychiatric Social Worker's 556 Interviews outside the Clinic - School visits by Psychologist 20 School visits by Psychiatric Social Worker 25 Home visits by Psychiatric

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The nature of the work at the child guidance clinic and the direction in which it hoped to progress have been fully dealt with in the report for the previous year. Statistics for the year 1948 amply illustrate the subsequent development.

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ambulance if necessary. AFTER CARE. After 5th July the main after-care work was continued by the Psychiatric Social Worker of Goodmayes Mental Hospital. The Psychiatric Social Club, operated from premises in the borough,, was taken over by the

West Ham 1949

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with Psychiatrists 849 Psychologist's Interviews 495 Psychiatric Social Worker's 253 Interviews outside the Clinic- School visits by Psychologist 84 Home Visits by Psychiatric Social Worker. 44 Other Visits by Psychiatric Social Worker.

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after discharge from mental hospitals are visited, where necessary, by the Psychiatric Social Worker from Goodmayes Mental Hospital, or the part-time Psychiatric Social Worker in the Health Department. Patients and relatives are advised

West Ham 1951

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attendance failed 96 Interviews outside Clinic Psychologist's school visits 38 Psychiatric Social Worker's school visits 33 Psychiatric Social Worker's home visits 24 Psychiatric Social Worker's foster home visits 28 Psychiatric Social Worker's

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their work. PREVENTION, CARE AND AFTER-CARE. Report on the work of the Psychiatric Social Worker by Miss L.Walton. This is the first complete year of a full-time Psychiatric Social Worker, and this has enabled the work to be more fully developed

London County Council 1962

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Table (i)— Source of referral of all cases

	Mentally ill				Subnormal and severely subnormal		Total 1962		Total 1961
	With a view to hospital admission		Community care		Subnormal and severely subnormal		Total 1962		Total 1961
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%

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Community care No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % Psychiatric hospital or ward 589 9.4 812 37.5 Psychiatrist at general ward 328 5.2 28 1.3 149 11.1 2,558 26.2 1,927 23.3 Non-psychiatric referrals from hospitals 576 9.2 76 3.5 Psychiatric out-patient clinic

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assisted in a similar way by the Council, continued to function during the year. Psychiatric social clubs—In addition to the five psychiatric social clubs organised directly by the Council and the eight run by the Institute of Social Psychiatry,

London County Council 1963

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Table (i)— Source of referral of all cases

	Mentally ill				Subnormal and severely subnormal		Total 1963		Total 1962
	With a view to hospital admission		Community care		Subnormal and severely subnormal		Total 1963		Total 1962
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%

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Community care No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % Psychiatric hospital or ward 603 10.9 904 41.9 112 9.4 2,568 28.8 2,558 26.2 Psychiatrist at general ward 348 6.3 46 2.1 Non-psychiatric referrals from hospitals 471 8.5 84 3.9 Psychiatric out-patient clinic

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agencies in the division. A service for home occupational therapy for home-bound psychiatric patients was inaugurated and approval was given for an extension of this scheme. There has been a very close link with St. Olave's psychiatric day hospital;