Annual report for the year 1951 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee
Date:
[1952?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1951 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provision of flat for staff at Pool Park. Construction of Implement Shed at Farm. SURPLUS LANDS AND FORESTRY Arrangements are being made to transfer to the Forestry Commission wood¬ lands not required for hospital purposes. At Coed Du Flail Institution, where the Committee were being pressed by a neighbouring farmer to repair fences, the Committee have suggested to the Regional Hospital Board that about 75 acres of woodlands should be transferred to the Forestry Commission. The Welsh Board of Health have agreed to the suggestion, and the Regional Hospital Board are arranging for the transfer of the freehold interest in tlie land to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries under an order to be made under Section 88 of the Agriculture Act, 1947. In the meantime, the Committee have been authorised to fell and remove from the land timber required for hospital purposes, and the remainder of the standing timber has been so]d for a large sum of money, the proceeds have been handed over to the Regional Hospital Board, At Garth Angharad, where the lease has not yet been signed, the proposed boundaries and terms are being varied to provide for the exclusion of approximately 150 acres of woodlands. These woodlands are not required for the purposes of the Institution and the Forestry Commission will negotiate direct with the owners in this matter. FARMING The farm and garden at the Mental Hospital has completed a success¬ ful and profitable year and has served a most useful purpose of supplying to the Hospital adequate quantities of potatoes, fresh vegetables and milk, besides providing healthy and congenial occupation to many patients, who, being brought up on farms and accustomed to farm work, are happier and more at home employed on the farm than in any other occupation. An enquiry received from the Welsh Board of Health caused the Farm Committee to fear that the general question as to whether mental hospital committees should be permitted to engage in farming activities was in the balance and, on the instructions of the Committee, the Secretary, in consultation with the Treasurer of the Regional Hospital Board, made represenlation to the Welsh Board of Health and ])ut forward the Commitle'^’s views that, if curtailment was to be introduced, discretion should be given to Regional Boards to at»prove farming activities being carried on where considerable and beneficial occupation of patients is provided and where a profit can be shown after produce has been charged at the growers’ price.