Annual report / Province of Manitoba, Department of Health and Welfare.

  • Manitoba. Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Date:
[1967]
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Credit: Annual report / Province of Manitoba, Department of Health and Welfare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of compulsory admissions - a drop to 17 percent from 30 percent of total admissions in the previous year. This is probably the result of the 1965 Mental Health Act which enables patients to be admitted to hospital with no more formality than for admission of physically ill patients to a general hospital. Transfers to Mental Hospitals The number of patients transferred to mental hospitals for further treatment in 1967 increased significantly over the two previous years. 1965 1966 1967 Number of transfers 195 162 278 Special Problem Groups As in previous years children and old patients pose special discharge problems once treatment of their acute illness is completed due mainly to lack of community facilities. Transfer to mental hospital of demented old people is at times necessary, not because this is warranted by their mental state, but because nursing homes have no vacancies or refuse to accept ex Psycho patients. Out-Patient Department Patients are referred to the out-patient department from a wide variety of sources, for examination and treatment. Former in¬ patients are followed up in the out-patient department. Recent methods of treatment (drugs, E.C.T., various social measures) have resulted in: (a) shorter periods of hospitalization (b) increase in the rate of readmission (c) increase in the number of out-patients. Many of the out-patients are chronically ill from the outset and