Annual report for the year 1954 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1955?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1954 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following are the cases referred to the Department during 1954: First Attendance Repeat Total In-patients at North Wales Hospital . 90 50 140 Psychiatric O.P. Clinics . 58 11 69 N.W Child Guidance Clinics . 25 1 26 Paediatric Consultants . 57 13 70 Consultant Physicians .. 97 14 111 Total 527 89 416 HAIRDRESSING Mrs. Hall took over the Ladies Hairdressing Saloon early in the year and her department is busy and popular. On the Male Side, we have a Barber but, unfortunately, no saloon, so he visits the various wards in turn. CHIROPODY Miss Millree attends on the Female Side of the Hospital on two days a week. Mr. Lees puts in two days with male patients. SOCIAL LIFE OF THE PATIENTS Religious Services: Services at the Hospital Chapel are conducted alternately in Welsh and English by the Church and Nonconformist 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 Occupational Therapy Department are en¬ couraged to take part in the ordinary 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, 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. 2?