[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.
- Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1958
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![In 1949, tliere were 20 part-time home ho]i;s employ- ed, wlio ill tlie a-^-grei^ate worked 2626 liours, and in 1958, there were 50 part-time hoin:3 hidps employed, who worked an aggregate total of 26313 lionrs'. iMlONTAL HEALTH SERVICE: When the weekly Psychiatric Out-Patient Clinic at Llandrindod Wells was inaugurated in 1948, some doubt was expressed as to whether there would be sufficient patients to warrant a clinic held so frequently. In fact the number of patients and relatives seen at this Clinic have increased steadily. Thirty-six aew cases attended in 1949. and in the same year, old and new patients made a total of 126 attendances. In 1958, the new cases totalled 122, and the number of attendances made by old and new patients totalled 306. There is no doubt that this Clinic has satisfied a big need and has also enabled many patients to be dealt with as out-patients wlio would otherwise have been admitted to a mental hospital. The most unsatisfactory side of the Mental Health work is the lack of provision for the mentally defective child who has been excluded from school. Hitherto these children liave been left at home without any help whatsoever exempt that provided b3^ the three monthly visit by the nurse. This is quite unsatisfactory, and yet it has semied impossible at a reasonable cost to provide any satisfactory help. This is an urgent problem and will have to be tackled in the near future. More and more of our work is orientated towards Mental Health, and in dealing with these problems I feel increasingly my lack of training and the lack of training of my staff in coping with these problems. In the fiPure the of the medical student and tlie nurse should be directed far more tlian at present to problems of mental health.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28875126_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
