Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders.
- Great Britain. Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders
- Date:
- 1975
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![recalled from conditional discharge have an additional right to make an application for reference to a Tribunal between six and twelve months following the date of recall (section 66(8)). The decision whether to accept the advice of the Tribunal remains with the Home Secretary. (iii) Statistics of hospital admissions 2.33 The following table gives the numbers® of psychiatric patients of all types admitted to local National Health Service hospitals and special hospitals in England and Wales during 1973:— Informal?!® Detained Under Under! Under Part V Part V Part IV without with restrictions | restrictions — —— ———_—— — —_ | | | | | SS Other Totals Local NHS hospitals 169,856 24,038 956 191 1.776% 196,817 Special hospitals 138 88 62 193 Patients!4 in all hospitals 169,857 (86:1 %) 24,126 1,018 384 (12:3%) (0:7%) (09%) Of the patients resident in the special hospitals at the end of 1973 30 per cent were detained under Part IV of the 1959 Act (or corresponding provisions of earlier Acts) and 70 per cent under Part V of the 1959 Act or the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 (or corresponding provisions of earlier Acts). Similar figures are not available for patients resident in local psychiatric hospitals, but it is estimated that about 95 per cent were informal and 5 per cent subject to detention under Parts IV and V of the Act combined. (3) Local authority social services for the mentally disordered (i) General 2.34 The social services available for the care and after-care of the mentally disordered include social work support, other domiciliary services (for example, home helps for the elderly mentally infirm living at home), a wide range of different types of residential care (short-stay hostels providing care and rehabilitation for a limited time to help people return to their own homes; ® These are not numbers of separate individuals but of admissions; the same person may be admitted more than once in the same year. 10 In 1973 over 60 offenders were made subject to probation orders requiring them to undertake psychiatric treatment as hospital in-patients: these are included in the informal admissions in the above Table. In addition 1,347 others received treatment outside hospitals under similar orders. (See also Chapter 16: Psychiatric Probation Orders). 11 Includes admissions under the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964: 8 of those who entered local NHS hospitals and 13 of those entering special hospitals were admitted under this Act. (See also Chapter 14 Section I]: Hospital Orders with Restrictions). , 12 Mainly section 136. 18 Temporary re-admission while suitable accommodation was found. 14 Figures also expressed as percentages of the total.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32220224_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
