[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Ely County Council.

  • Isle of Ely (England). County Council. n 78027969.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Ely County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MkNTAL 1 )HFICIEN('Y. During the year continued efforts liavn been made to ascertain and visit cases of Mental Deficiency in the Isle of Ely. There still exists the great difficulty of finding institutions willing to take suitable cases from this area, the available accommodation for such being so small. Arrangements are now approaching completion whereby accom- modation for 20 high grade female defectives will he secured at the Whittlesey Workhouse. At the moment of writing there are known to be in the care of the Isle of Ely 07 feeble-minded persons (47 males, and 50 females); of these, 7 males and 11 females are in residential institutions. There are 33 imbeciles (19 males and 14 females); of these, 7 males and 5 females are in residential institutions. There are two male and one female moral imbeciles, one male being in a residential institution. Of 18 idiots (G males and 12 females), 5 males and 4 females are in institutions. Miss A. Mort, one of the Council’s Health Visitors, undertook the home visiting from 1st April, 1928, and she was a valuable helper and co-operator in this work.