Annual report for the year 1961 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1962?]
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1961 / North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the fulfilment of the plan in the Committee’s area, the North Wales Hospital at Denbigh can be expected to reduce its number of beds below 900 and acute psychiatric units will develop with the new district general hospitals. With the exception of Broughton Hospital, the small hospitals for the mentally subnormal will, in the course of time, close, and Oakwood Park will i)e enlarged to accommodate 500 patients. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. The Committee suffered a great loss during the year through the passing away of one of their members, Councillor the Reverend T. A. Williams, who had, throughout the period of his membership of the Committee, given valuable assistance. Alderman Joseph Brookes, J.P., resigned during the year and the Committee were sorry to lose the services of so experienced and competent a member. The two vacancies were filled by the appointment of Councillor R. C. G. Jones, of Flintshire, and Councillor Ft.-Col. Lewis Williams, J.P., of Merionethshire, who have both shown a keen interest in the work and proved most helpful. Regular monthly meetings of the Hospital Management Committee have been held throughout the year at Denbigh, the June meeting being held at Garth Angharad, Dolgellau, in accordance with the Committee’s decision to hold one of their meetings at a hospital for the subnormal. Dr. D. E. Parry-Pritchard, O.B.E., of Caernarvonshire, and Dr. M. T. Islwyn Jones, of Denbighshire, have attended to represent the County Medical Officers of Health as observers and advisers at the Management Committee’s monthly meetings and the Committee value highly the help they are able to give. The arrangement goes far towards the forming of a link between the Hospital Management Committee and the local authority health services. PATIENT STATISTICS. Full details of patient population are given elsewhere in this report. Numbers on the books at the North Wales Hospital at the beginning and end of the vear 1961 are as follows ;— Male Female Total At .list December, 1960 . 685 739 1424 At 31st December, 1961 . . 692 747 1439 At the hospitals for the subnormal the numbers on the books are follows ;— Oakwood Garth Coed Brough- Flwyn Park Angharad Du ton View Total At 31st December, 1950 202 ... 72 ... 66 ... 67 ... 66 .. 473 At 31st December, 1961 196 ... 74 ... 72 ... 54 ... 68 . .. 464