Annual report for the year 1958 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1959?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1958 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tenth Annual Report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the Year 1958-59 The Committee have pleasure in presenting their Annual Report for the year 1958-59. The hospitals entrusted to the Committee’s care, providing mental health services, primarily for the North Wales counties, are as follows :— North Wales Hospital for Nervous and Mental Disorders, Denbigh 1,450 beds Pool Park, Ruthin . 105 beds Oakwood Park, Conway. 187 beds Coed Du Hall, Rhydymwyn. 80 beds Garth Angharad, Dolgellau. 74 beds Broughton, near Chester. 70 beds- Llwyn View, Dolgellau . 68 beds Out-patient clinics are situated at Bangor, Wrexham, Rhyl and Dol¬ gellau, and Denbigh by appointment, and the Committee are responsible also for the Child Guidance Services, with headquarters at Old Colwyn, and clinics at Bangor, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Dolgellau, Holyhead, Old Colwyn, Rhyl and Wrexham. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. During the year under review the Committee have been pleased to wel¬ come Mrs. Francis Williams, J.P., and Dr. A. Wesley Hill as new members. Dr. D. E. Parry-Pritchard, of Caernarvonshire, and Dr. M. T. Islwyn Jones, of Denbighshire, have continued to attend the monthly meetings as representatives of the Medical Officers of Plealth of the five North Wales counties, and the Committee are most grateful to them for their valuable advice and guidance. The attendance of representatives of the County Medical Officers of Health in this way has provided a link between the Hospital Management Committee and the Focal Health Authorities. Regular monthly meetings of the full Committee have been held throughout the year, normally at Denbigh, the June meeting being held at Garth Angharad Hospital, Dolgellau, in accordance with the Committee’s practice of holding one of their meetings at a mental deficiency hospital. The local Blouse Committees have met at the mental deficiency hospitals from time to time as necessary, and the Committee again wish to express their thanks to those Committees and to the members individually for the personal interest taken in the intimate affairs of the hospitals and of the patients and staff. Excellent public relationship and local interest has been fostered by these House Committees.