[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, East Suffolk County Council.
- East Suffolk (England). County Council.
- Date:
- 1948
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, East Suffolk County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTIES OF EAST AND WEST SUFFOLK. PROPOSALS FOR THE PROVISION OF A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS 28, 50 AND 51 OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT, 1946, BY A JOINT BOARD FOR MENTAL HEALTH. (Approved by the Minister of Health on 31st July, 1948, with effect from 5th July, 1948). PART 1. Population mid-1946: East Suffolk, 194,870 West Suffolk, 106,080 (a) Number of patients at present chargeable to the Local Authorities under the Lunacy and Mental Treatments Acts (b) Number of patients dealt with under those Acts by the Relieving Officers of the area in 1946 ... (c) Number of defectives ascertained as subject to be dealt with under the Mental Deficiency Acts in the course of 1946 (d) Number of persons reported to the Local Auth- orities as mentally defective in 1946 (e) Number of patients chargeable to Local Auth- orities in Institutions and under guardianship on 1st January, 1947 (f) Number of mental defectives under statutory supervision on 1st January, 1947 ... (g) Number of mental defectives as on 1st January, ] 1947, not “subject to be dealt with,” but for ( whom a Local Authority may subsequently ( become liable ... ... ... ) ... ] Total: ... j 300,950 s. W.S. Total 696 382 1078 147 81 228 — — *52 *57 — — 608 — — 296 891 of whom 837 are under voluntary supervision. * Joint Committee. PART H. Proposals. A. General. 1. The Local Health Authorities for East and West Suffolk have, in pursuance of Section 19(2) of the National Health Service Act, 1946, decided to ask the Minister of Health to make an Order constituting a Joint Board, to be known as the “Suffolk County Mental Health Board,” for the purpose of exercising all the functions relating to the mental health service whichw ill devolve upon the East and West Suffolk County Councils under the Act. In arriving at this decision, the Local Health Authorities have had regard to the satisfactory joint arrangements which have operated since 1915 in relation to the administration of their duties under the Mental Deficiency Acts. The Board’s Medieal Officer of Health will be responsible to the Joint Board for the organisation and control and the medical direction of the service.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29186353_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
