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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    of the hospitals. The Management Committee have done their best to this end appreciating that it is the Minister’s duty to utilise the limited funds at his disposal ior health and hospital purposes to the best advantage. An Economy Sub-Committee was formed and suggestions of all the senior officers were invited. It was found that in an instit ution such as the Mental Hospital, where strict economy had always been observed and where the cost per head was amongst the lowest in the country, no large measure of further economy was possible. A careful review of the staffing of all departments and of the mental deficiency institutions resulted, however, in some reduction of the wages bill following the re¬ organisation of the out-door staff at two of the institutions and placing on pension ol one or two members of the works department at the Mental Hospi tab COMMISSIONERS. The Mental Hospital and the Mental Deficiency Institutions have been visited by Commissioners of the Board of Control and the reports have been considered care¬ fully by the House Committees and the Management Committee, recommendations for improvements having been adopted where possible. At Llwyn View normal baths have been installed in place of the high and awkward ones, and screens and doors have been fitted in the sani¬ tary annexe for additional privacy. At Coed Du the staffing position commented upon by the Com¬ missioners has, since their visit, somewhat improved but much dependence has still to be placed upon the services of non-resident and part-time staff at an isolated institution of this kind. The Committee are having improvements carried out m the day- room into which the front entrance door opens. At Broughton the greatest difficulty is still being experienced to recruit adequate staff. The Committee are gratified to see in the report of the Commis¬ sioners on their visit to Denbigh that the Mental Hospital is described as “a progressive one where there is evidence that both the medical and administrative staffs have shown much zeal in overcoming the difficulties inherent in old and overcrowded buildings.” WORKS. The Works and Engineering Department centred at Denbigh under the