[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.
- Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
- Date:
- 1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![This part of the report gives particulars of the operation of the Coun< schemes during 1954 under the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913-38, and Lunacy and Mental Treatments Acts, 1890-1930, as amended by the Natic Health Service Acts, 1946-52. Administration Mental Health Sub-committee The Service is operated by the Council through the Health Committee i a Mental Health Sub-committee has been established consisting of 14 memb including a co-opted representative of the Manchester District Nursing Inst tion. The Sub-committee meets each month and deals with all matters wit the purview of the local health authority relating to mental health, with exception of staff appointments, salaries, wages and conditions of service. Sub-committee has no delegated powers and all its proceedings are subject confirmation by the Health Committee and the City Council. Staff The Medical Officer of Health is approved by the Minister of Health for purpose of making recommendations for voluntary and temporary treatm under the Mental Treatment Act, 1930. He is also authorized by the lc health authority, as are the Deputy Medical Officer of Health and the Sen Medical Officer (Administrative), to give medical certificates accompany petitions to judicial authorities for Orders under the Mental Deficiency A 1913-38. Three male duly authorized officers, formerly general relieving officers v the Social Welfare Committee, are employed to initiate proceedings for the c and treatment of persons suffering from mental illness, and a twenty-four h duty rota is maintained to deal with emergencies which occur outside nor office hours. Five female mental health visitors, all experienced social work supervise the domiciliary care and progress of the mentally defective ; two qualified in mental or mental deficiency nursing and are also State-registt nurses ; one is a University graduate with training in social work. The care and after-care of mental illness is provided by two qualified fer psychiatric social workers. All the staff are employed full-time. Following consultations with the University and the Manchester Regi* Hospital Board, referred to in the Annual Report for 1953, Dr. NorthageJ V. Mather was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist to the Mental Health Sen on a sessional basis. The value of this appointment will be considered in section dealing with care and after-care. Three staff changes have taken place in the year. Following the resignatio the Administrative Assistant to the Service in December, 1953, in order to up an appointment outside Manchester, his successor was appointed on January. In April, one of the mental health visitors and, in October, one of psychiatric social workers resigned, both taking up appointments in the Hos] Service. Both these ladies were replaced by people of equivalent qualificati 60](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29785753_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
