Annual report for the year 1955 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
- North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee
- Date:
- [1956?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Annual report for the year 1955 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Students.—As usual, four of the Manchester University Psychiatric Social Work students spent six weeks in the Department as part of their practical ex¬ perience. In addition this year, the first two students of the Liverpool University Course in Mental Health (inaugurated September, 1954) came for three months training and experience. Cardiff and Swansea University Colleges sent two Social Science students for short periods of experience. CLASSIFICATION OF WORK DONE The following table gives details of work done with adults during 1955. The services rendered are indicated as follows :— HV = Home Visit. OV = Other Visit (Employer, G.P., Social Agency, etc.). 1 = Interview in Hospital or Out-patient Clinic. These services are classified under two headings, according to whether they are the responsibility of the Board (Class I) or the Local Health Authority (Class II). In respect of Class II Service, the Management Committee received payment from the Local Authority concerned. Class I.—Includes patients who are in hospital or attending an out-patient clinic for treatment or, in the case of certified patients, only are at home “ on trial Class II.—This class, broadly speaking, is in receipt of “ after care It includes all patients who have been discharged from hospital and in the case of certified patients also from certificate. It also includes out-patients who are no longer attending a clinic for treatment and also a small number of “ pre-care cases ”, being patients referred from outside social agencies direct to the Depart¬ ment. County 1 CLASS I 1 aatients | CLASS Out-patients El |f In-patients ] Ont-patients|Total In-, Pre-care | Total |HV |0V | I HV |0V | I 1 HV |0'V | I | HV |OV I |HV |OV | I Anglesey | 17 | 9 7 27 | 33 | 14 107 J 8 5 1 | 1 - - - -1 — .15 Caernarvon 83 54 38 60 42 38 315 78 15 3 | 69 4 2 3 — — 174 Denbigh 87 67 62 143 36 | 11 406 || 143 | 40 j 1 | 97 18 7 10 4 I — 3k0 Flint 113 18 48 1132 | 27 | 12 350 | 1105 | 20 j 9 j 32 3 7 7 3| — 186 Merioneth | 16 24 16 33 30 14 133 14 11 4 6 9 2 — — — 46 Other Counties | 1 1 7 - 2 | - 11 3 2 4 — — 1 — — - 10 Total 1322 Total 751 Grand Total Class 1 and Class II ... 2073 CONCLUSION I would take this opportunity to pay tribute to the work of my nursing, lay and medical colleagues whose co-operation and support I have highly valued. To you, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I express my great appre¬ ciation of the courtesy and consideration which you invariably show me. I am, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, J. H. 0. EGBERTS, Medical Superintendent.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30299871_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
