Annual report of the Brighton County Borough Mental Hospital : 1943-1945 (& statement of accounts March 1944, 1945 & 1946)

  • Great Britain. Brighton County Borough Mental Hospital
Date:
1946
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Credit: Annual report of the Brighton County Borough Mental Hospital : 1943-1945 (& statement of accounts March 1944, 1945 & 1946). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT. January, 1944. To the Visiting Committee. MADAM CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I have the honour to submit to you my Sixth Annual Report as Medical Superintendent, this being the Fortieth Report of the Brighton County Borough Mental Hospital and the 85th since the Hospital was opened in 1859 by the Justices of the two Divisions of Sussex (Kast and West). A report of the work at the Emergency Neuro-surgical Unit will be submitted as an appendix, this appendix being strictly confidential. I reported last year on the lack of suitable accommo- Improvisa- dation for the treatment of minor degrees of neurosis 4°- and. psychosis, and on the lack of a.separate block for the isolation of infectious diseases. The Hospital still suffers from these disabilities owing to changes necessitated by the war. On the 12th August, 1943, the use of the Day Room of Male Ward 6 as a dormitory was discontinued. The top floor of the building, with the exception of the Male Sleeping Gallery, the top dormitory of Female Ward 8, the rooms on the north side of the Female Sleeping Gallery, and Female Top 25, is now occupied at night. Female Top 25 is used as an occupational centre. Accommodation now used on the top floor is, of course, subject to the exigencies of the war situation, and the necessity of removal of patients to sleep on the lower floors might arise with a return of the conditions of the winter of 1940-4]. Bae ; ; Shelter The position is unchanged ‘since the last Annual accommoda- Report. tion. The arrangements arrived at on the 17th July, 1941, Emergency are still operative, and were confirmed in 1942 with accommoda- one exception. The heads of these institutions are “, again being circularised.