Eighty-first annual report : for the year ending December 31st, 1939 / Royal Eastern Counties' Institution Ltd.

  • Royal Eastern Counties' Institution Ltd. (Colchester, England)
Date:
1940
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Credit: Eighty-first annual report : for the year ending December 31st, 1939 / Royal Eastern Counties' Institution Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These 192 cases on licence on 1st January, 1940, were cared for in the various ways shown below In care of friends working for wages ... ... 51 At work away from home in living-in service ... 33 Working at home or with foster-parents ... ... 84 Not able to work but living with parents or foster- parents ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 In the simpler type of Institution ... ... 14 192 Cases in Day Service from the Hostels on 1st January, 1940 ... ... ... ... ... 12 The number on licence at the beginning of 1939, was raised considerably by the inclusion of a number of patients, who had been placed at the Risbridge Certified Institution on trial. As this proved successful, they were later in the year transferred to the books of that Institution. The number of cases on licence, properly so calle<J, at the end of the year, is actually much higher than twelve months earlier. This is partly due to the increased opportunities of employment now open to young men, and partly to the efforts we are always making, to get more of our boys and girls back to the world. The table given above shows that twenty-six cases had to return to the Institution from licence for some definite fault. Fourteen of these were due to disagreements, the patient could not get on with her mistress or foster-parent, or the mistress could not successfully manage the patient. Two girls ran away for some minor upsets in the home, one boy joined the Army, and one could not get work. Two girls, I am sure, wished to come back, and therefore were a trouble to the mistress, and one had arranged to meet a man. One girl who had been on licence for several years, became pregnant, and three were guilty of small dishonesties. One boy had to return for a serious offence against a small boy. Only this one boy and the pregnant girl, returned for a really serious reason. Thirty-five cases were discharged from licence, sixteen of whom changed to another form of care. Nineteen were discharged, because they had succeeded in carrying on in the outside world, and had earned their living successfully, without getting into any kind of mischief or trouble. Every one of these nineteen had failed and failed very badly before Discharge after Licence.
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