The first annual report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the period 5th July - 31st december, 1949.

  • North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee.
Date:
[1950?]
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Credit: The first annual report of the North Wales Mental Hospital Management Committee for the period 5th July - 31st december, 1949. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sioners. New Trustees have been nominated and application is being made for such variation or enlargement of the Trusts as may be necessary in consequence of the passing of the Health Service Act, 1946. The Committee works in close co-operation with the Regional Hospital Board, whose officers are always at hand when called upon to advise and help. Long-term develop¬ ment plans are submitted to the Board for consideration and on approval are placed in an order of priority that bears relation to the needs of the region as a whole. At the Hospital every modern form of treatment is avail¬ able, and the Committee record with satisfaction that 73.9% of the patients admitted during the past year entered volum* tarily. It is a tribute to the skill and sympathy of the staff which the Committee are proud to endorse. The past year has witnessed severe personal losses. The Deputy Medical Superintendent, Dr. R. Scott Wilson, died suddenly on 26th April, 1949, and Miss Dorothy M. Thomas, the Psychiatric Social Worker, who met with a serious accident whilst on holiday in Switzerland, succumbed to her injuries. The loss of these two officers will be long felt by all who had the privilege of knowing them and of witnessing their single-minded devotion to the community they were called upon to serve. To the staff, one and all, the Committee desire to pay the warmest tribute. Through their helpfulness and co-operation the new service has been established with the minimum of dislocation. The time has been short as yet in which to show material development. It has been a testing time, a period of adjust¬ ment and of laying foundations. The institutions which the Committee have been called upon to administer are dispersed over a large area, and it has been necessary to plan in terms of a widening service of mental health—domiciliary, out¬ patient, institutional. But the Committee are confident that as their long-term policy comes into full fruition, they will be able to provide ever-improving service for those suffering from nervous and mental illness in the area. K. W. JONES-ROBERTS. Chairman. February, 1950.