The first annual report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the period 5th July - 31st december, 1949.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
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[1950?]
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Credit: The first annual report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the period 5th July - 31st december, 1949. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENTS AND MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL REPORT. Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, In my capacity of Medical Superintendent of the North Wales Hospital for Nervous and Mental Disorders and Medical Officer for the three Institutions for Mental Defec¬ tives for which the Committee is responsible, I have the honour to report to you on the medical and social aspects of the Committee’s work therein. I also propose to touch on the Out-patient Services carried out at hospitals under the control of General Hospital Management Committees, for although these are not your direct responsibility you provide most of the personnel and have the greatest interest in the dvelopment of a comprehensive Mental Health Service in North Wales. NORTH WALES HOSPITAL, DENBIGH. Admissions.—The following figures relate to the admissions during the year 1949. It will be seen that the steady increase of the admission rate apparent since 1940 has continued. It is considered that this trend is not in any marked degree due to an increase in mental illness in North Wales. It is believed to be the re¬ sult of the greater willingness to enter hospital of patients suffering from the earlier and milder forms of mental and nervous illness. This view is supported by the parallel in¬ crease in the number of voluntary admissions, which last year constituted 73.9% of all direct admissions. Male. Female. Total. Direct Admissions . ... . Indirect admissions from other men- 371 434 805 tal hospitals . 2 1 3 Total Admissions ... ... ... 373 435 808 Ages of direct admissions were as follows ;— Age Group. Male. Female. Total. Under 20 ... . 14 7 21 20-40 . . 134 144 278 40—60 ... . 138 182 320 60—80 ... . . . 82 94 176 Over 80 . 3 7 It) The number of re-admissions during the year was 221.