The second annual report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the period 1st January - 31st December, 1950.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1951?]
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Credit: The second annual report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the period 1st January - 31st December, 1950. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Social Life of the Patients Religious Services.—Services at the Hospital Chapel are con¬ ducted alternately in Welsh and English by the Church and Non¬ conformist Chaplains. They are held at 9 a.m. and 2.45 p.m. on Sundays and at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays. There is also held a Prayer Meeting on Sunday evenings in which patients 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.—Patients not employed in the Occupa¬ tional Therapy Department are encouraged to take part in the ordin¬ ary necessary work of the Hospital. This not only helps their mental condition but gives them the sense of being useful members of a community. The Canteen.—The Hospital Canteen continues to provide a very satisfactory service and patients who have not the privilege of Town parole are there able to purchase such items as fruit, cakes, sweets and tobacco. Goods are paid for either in the normal currency of the realm or in the form of tokens, the value of each being 3d. Patients who have no income from other sources are allowed up to 5/- per week pocket money, the actual amount varying according to their capacity to appreciate spending it. Patients incapable of doing their own shopping are provided with free issues of tobacco or sweets. Pocket money is issued in the form of cash when the recipient is considered capable of taking care of it but in tokens when this is not the case. Trolley Service.—The Denbigh W.V.S. run a weekly trolley service at the Reception Hospital which meets the wants of patients still confined to bed. Parole.—At the time of writing this Report, 52 men and 48 women enjoy parole outside the grounds of the Hospital, while 69 men and 5 women are allowed parole within the grounds only. Some are patients convalescing prior to returning home, others are well conducted chronic patients whose long detention is considerably mitigated by the liberty to come and go amongst normal people, shopping expeditions to the Town being especially appreciated by the ladies. Recreation.—Every Wednesday, there is a Patients’ Dance in the Main Hall and every Monday evening a Cinema Show. During the Winter months. Whist Drives and Billiards Tournaments are held. Fourteen concerts aud two plays were presented during the