[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (d) No duties have been delegated to Voluntary Associations. The Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare arranged for 18 defectives attending Pelsall Occupation Centre to have a week’s holiday in camp at Wombourn during the summer vacation in August, 1950. The staff of the Centre looked after the children ; the organisation of the holiday was carried out by the Supervisor. (e) No Refresher Course for the Occupation Centre staffs was organised during 1950 as ip former years, but the County Psychiatrist arranged a course of three lectures in speech therapy for members of the staffs of Centres in the autumn of 1950. These were well attended and proved of interest and value to the staff. Accotint of work mtdertake^i in the community [a] Under Section 28, National Health Service Act, 1946. Prevention, care and after-care. During the year preventative care and after-care was undertaken by the Social Workers in Mental Health in 390 cases. Of these, 315 were new cases referred during the year 1950 and 75 were cases which were still on after-care, having been referred prior to 1950. In all, 1,398 visits of after-care were made by these Duly Authorised Officers. {h) Under the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890-1930, by Duly Authorised Officers. 1,238 cases were referred to the Duly Authorised Officers under'the Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts. They were dealt with as follows :— Voluntary Cases under Sec. 1 of the Mental Treatment Act .. Temporary Cases under Sec. 5 of the Mental Treatment Act . . Three-day Or7ders under Sec. 20 of the Lunacy Act Summary Reception Orders, Secs. 14—16 of the Lunacy Act Other Disposals (Sec. 21 (1) Pt. Ill) Accom¬ modation, etc. .. Cases seen in which no action was taken .. A pleasing feature has been that of the 936 cases in which action had to be taken only 334 (35.7%) were actually dealt with on a Summary Reception Order, and 234 were dealt with as voluntary cases under Section 1 of the Mental Treatment Act. (c) Community care under the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913-38. (i) Ascettciinment, including numhey of defectives ciwuiting vcicuncies in institutions at the end of the year. 234 2 211 334 155 302 1,238