Annual report for the year 1961 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee
Date:
[1962?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1961 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advised that the Ediswan electro-encephalograph and wave analyser installed in 1956 are obsolescent and it is hoped to replace them in the near future by Offner transistorised instruments. The old apparatus will not be discarded and will be retained for sleep recordings and general reserve. The department deals with not only our own cases but also with the cases referred by Physicians and Paediatricians in the general hospitals of the area. i would again express my appreciation of the kindness of Dr. Robert R. Hughes, of Liverpool, who visits us periodically to report on the more obscure records and to advise us generally on the work of the department, and I am grateful also to the Liverpool Regional Hospital Board who have placed at our disposal the services of their Chief E.E.G. Technician, Mr. Banks, who visits us every fortnight. During 1961, the Department dealt with the following cases:— First Attendance Repeat Total In-patients at North Wales Hospital . 194 145 339 From Psychiatric O.P. Clinic. 53 35 88 From N.W. Child Guidance Clinics . — — — From Paediatric Consultants. 217 77 294 From Consultant Physicians. 125 69 194 Total. 589 326 915 ! SOCIAL LIFE OF THE PATIENTS. Religious Services. Services at the hospital chapel are conducted alternately in Welsh and English by the Church of England and Nonconformist Chaplains. They are held at 8.45 a.m. and 2.45 p.m. on Sundays, and at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays. A Prayer Meeting is also held on Sunday evenings in which the ])atients take part. The Roman Catholic Chaplain holds a service every Thursday evening and attends whenever needed to minister to the seriously ill. Employment of Patients. Occupational Therapy: Accommodation has been improved considerably during the year. A new pavilion for sixty patients has been opened at Bryn Golau. In addition, the accommodation vacated by the Accounts’ Section of the Finance Department, the Pathology Laboratories and a Verandah on the male side, have been put at the disposal of the department.