Annual report for the year 1952 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1953?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1952 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    males and 410 females). Leave of absence on trial was granted to 13, patients while 356 had short leave. This hospital is designated for the purpose of receiving patients on short orders for mental observation. During 1951 there were five patients so admitted (two male and three female) of whom two were certified, two came into into this hos¬ pital as voluntary patients, and one was discharged to his home. According to the figures placed before us there is a deficiency of accom¬ modation for 179 men and 205 women by day, and for 119 men and 150 women by night. Parole beyond the estate is granted to 83 men and 48 women, while 77 men and 7 women have parole within the grounds. The weekly maintenance charge for Health Service patients is £3.10.lid. Among the structural additions and improvements which have taken place since the date of the last visit are the construction of an additional ablution room in female ward 5, the re-roofing of the verandah in male ward 4 where also the lavatories have been improved. The recreation hall has been refloored, and the verandah on the female side of the admission hospital has been adapted for use as an occupations room. A clinic room at the admission hospital has been constructed to provide for an E.E.G. Department. One of the existing buildings near Gwynfryn is being adapted to house a preliminary training school, and a part of Trefeirian House has been con¬ verted into a Social Workers’ Department. Some of the roads and paths have been resurfaced. An air speed dryer has been installed in the laundry. In addition a number of wards and corridors on both sides of the hospital, residences, etc., have been re-decorated externally or internally. Further re-decoration is in progress, and a hut 60 feet by 20 feet is being constructed tor use by the artisan staff for upholster¬ ers, shoemakers and tailors departments. The patients appeared to us to be generally contented, and we felt that they were well cared for. We received no complaints except a few on the score of deten¬ tion. We gave two private interviews. Some improvements have taken place in the ward furnishings, some more comfortable chairs have been introduced and some dining tables with a pleasing sur¬ face said to be heat resisting, have been supplied. Unfortunately the hospital electric generators are unable to carry the extra load required of them if plate heaters were to be supplied in the wards. The dietary appears to be satisfactory. There are four main meals each day