The second annual report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the period 1st January - 31st December, 1950.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1951?]
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Credit: The second annual report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the period 1st January - 31st December, 1950. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in every part of the Hospital. Four hundred and twenty new bedside, lockers are being acquired from the Government Training Centre, Cardiff. New bedside rugs are being provided in the Nurses’ Home and additional easy chairs supplied to various wards in the Hospital. Carpets have been renewed in the Female Convalescent Villa and in the Common Room of the Nurses’ Home. A hot cupboard has been installed in the Male Nurses’ Messroom and consideration is being given to the heating of the Male Nurses' Block. Patients’ amenities and entertainments have continued to receive the Committee’s attention. A weekly whist drive, dance and cinema show are held at the Hospital. Six concerts arranged by the Council for Music in Hospitals were held during the year. A dancing instructress has been engaged for the female convalescent patients, with notable benefit to their health and spirits. A T.V. set has been provided at Denbigh out of the Hospital Endowment Fund (Free Monies), together with additional indoor games. The weekly W.E.A. class contiues to flourish and the Committee make a contribution to the North Wales Branch of the Association in respect of the services rendered. The patients’ library is kept supplied with £5-worth of fresh books a month. An interesting experiment has been started iu the course of the year. In the Occupational Therapy department, under the guidance of Mr. G. R. Wilson, the Senior Male Occupation Therap¬ ist, the patients’ have launched their own Magazine at the Hospital. The contributions are supplied by the patients’ themselves, and the printing and binding are done in the O.T. Department. By arrangement with the Red Cross Picture Library, 25 pictures are sent to the Hospital during the year and are changed periodically. Rail wav Posters have also been acquired. Frames for these are made at the Hospital. Relatives and friends visiting the Hospital on the appointed days are provided with facilities for refreshments in the Main Hall. These are much appreciated. Reduced railway fares continue to be available for visitors to long-stay cases. Visiting Chaplains, representing all denominations, attend at the Hospital and Institutions and conduct services in turn. At Pool Park a cinema projector is being provided, chargeable to Free Monies, and when installed will provide entertainment for oil the patients. At present a number of selected patients are brought to Denbigh once a week. A weekly cinema show is provided at Coed Du, and Llwyn View patients at Dolgelley have been given free weekly visits to the local cinema by the proprietors. Arrangements are also made for Fronfraith patients to be taken to the pictures periodically. In the course of the year the Committee has joined the newly- formed Association of Hospital Management Committees, and has