[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council 1923].

  • London County Council (London, England). County of London.
Date:
1924
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    6 Patients. 5. The number of resident patients on 1st January, 1924, was:— Table 2. Mental hospital. Males. Females. Total. Banstead 1,009 1,374 2,383 Bexley 1,032 1,086 2,118 Cane Hill 923 1,245 2,168 Claybury 1,052 1,374 2,426 Claybury Hall (private patients only) 45 — 45 Colney Hatch 1,044 1,558 2,602 Hanwell 1,009 1,457 2,466 Horton 187 1,699* 1,886 Long Grove 1,093 1,019 2,112 Total 7,394 10,812 18,206 Total (excluding Claybury Hall) 7,349 10,812 18,161 *Includes 120 patients in the private ward. Charges for private patients. This table excludes the Ewell Colony, which on 1st January, 1924, was still in use as a Ministry of Pensions hospital. 6. The increase in the number of patients at Horton as compared with the number on 1st January, 1923 (see Table 2, on p. 6 of Annual Report for 1922), is due to the gradual filling up of vacant accommodation during 1923 as staff became available to allow of the opening of the wards. 7. Comparison of Tables 1 and 2 shows that the mental hospitals (excluding the Ewell Colony), taken as a whole, housed 615 patients (241 males and 374 females) more than the measured accommodation allowed for. Of this number, 78 (29 males and 49 females) were chargeable to parishes and unions outside the County of London and were awaiting removal to out-county mental hospitals. 8. The charge for the maintenance of a female private patient in the private ward before the war was 16s. l1d. a week; during the twelve months under review the charge has been 35s. a week. The charge for private patients at Claybury Hall before the war was 30s. a week for London patients and 40s. a week for out-county patients; during the same period the charge has been 56s. a week for London patients and 66s. 6d. a week for out-county patients. Patients for whom the Council was responsible. 9. The statutory returns to the Council by the London boards of guardians, taken with other available information, show that on 1st January, 1924, the Council was responsible to find accommodation for 18,918 insane persons, who were housed as follows :— Table 3. Males. Females. Total. Parish patients in London County mental hospitals 6,449 10,441 16,890 Parish patients maintained by the Council in other mental hospitals under contract 279 298 577 Parish patients in county and borough mental hospitals under arrangements made by guardians 129 129 258 Total Parish patients 6,857 10,868 17,725 Private patients at Horton mental hospital — 120 120 Patients in various London County mental hospitals on the private list (Lunacy Act, 1891, section 3), including soldiers classified as service patients 861 202 1,063 Total Private patients 861 322 1,183 Criminal lunatics in various London County mental hospitals chargeable to the Prison Commissioners 10 — 10 7,728 1 ,1 50 18,918 The sub-totals printed here in italics appear again in Table 5. [This table does not include male private patients at Claybury Hall, but it does include female private patients at Horton mental hospital, all of whom have London settlements and are received at a specially low rate, so that probably, if not dealt with thus, the Council would have to pro vide for them as parish cases. This is true also of the private list cases, all of whom are admitted in the first instance as parish cases and also of the majority of the service patients.]