Report / Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency 1954-1957.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency 1954-1957.
- Date:
- 1957
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report / Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency 1954-1957. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Length of stay of hospital patients Table lla Length of stay of patients admitted to mental deficiency hospitals (excluding transfers) during 1953 (Mental deficiency hospitals in the national health service and Rampton and Moss Side Hospitals) Excluding Including Circular 5/52 Circular 5/52 admissions admissions Percentage Percentage Discharged within 12 months ne 2 30 Died in hospital within 12 months she 4 3 Still in hospital at end of 1 year wh 94 67 Per cent of patients admitted during 1953 (Excluding Circular 5/52 admissions) & Length of stay Under Over | year | year Table 11b Length of stay as at 31st December, 1954, of patients on books of hospitals at that date (including patients living outside hospital on licence, and excluding patients received under Circular 5/52) Per cent of total ee patients resident . [45% Length of stay Under 1- 7 2-5 years 5-10 years 10-20 years 20-30 Over 1] year years years 30 ; years Legal classification of hospital patients Table 12 (Same hospitals as for Table 11a, excluding patients admitted under Circular 5/52) , ‘ Feeble- Moral Idiots Imbeciles minded | defectives Total Patients admitted during 1954 379 1,161 1,293 5 2,838 (Classification on admission) (13%) (41%) (46%) (100%) Patients in hospital on 31st December, 1954 (Classification 4,511 23,308 30,215 85 58,119 at time of admission) (8%) (40%) (52%) (100%) Note: The classification is that recorded at the time of each patient’s admission to hospital. Standards of classification may not be uniform. In particular, as mentioned in paragraph 165 of our report, the classification ‘‘ feebleminded ” is sometimes extended to patients who might more properly be classified as imbeciles; the patients admitted in 1954 and classified as feebleminded included some children recorded as having intelligence quotients under 20 and some adults recorded as having a mental age below 5.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32177768_0337.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
