Report of the Upton Mental Hospital management committee : group no.XVI for year ended March 31st, 1950 / Liverpool Regional Hospital Board.

  • Upton Mental Hospital (Chester, England)
Date:
[1950?]
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Credit: Report of the Upton Mental Hospital management committee : group no.XVI for year ended March 31st, 1950 / Liverpool Regional Hospital Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORTS OF the superintendents OF THE MANOR' The Manor, Great Sutton, Wirral, Cheshire. The patients who were at The Home, Everton Terrace, Liver¬ pool, were moved on 5th July, 1949, to the premises known as The Manor, 838, Chester Road, Great Sutton, which formerly was ancillary to The Home, and had five patients in residence. Today, accompanied by Dr. MacKenzie, Medical Superinten¬ dent of Newchurch Homes, near Warrington, we visited The Manor. Dr. MacKenzie is also Psychiatric Adviser to the last mentioned Institution. We found that there were 19 girls in residence all over 16 yeais of age, but we understand that there is accommodation here for 41 patients. The Manor is under the same Hospital Management Committee as the Mental Hospital, Upton, Chester. It was a great pleasure to see the patients in their fresh and comfoi table surroundings with ample outside facilities for recrea¬ tion and good gardens for trie cultivation of vegetables and fruit. It has not yet been decided whether the principal industry cf “The Home” namely laundry work will be continued here. We were gi\en to understand that there is an opening for a laundry in the district and there is the accommodation on the premises where one could be provided. It is good training for certain types of mental defectives, and need not be laborious. Alternatively the out houses in question might be adapted to house an occupation therapy centre. The Manoi is very attractive, but it is not a labour saving house. Each girl has her own locker, but we thought that more mirrors might be provided. Representatives of the local fire service have seen over the house and we understand that they are satis¬ fied with the fire precautions. We were glad to hear that the girls do fire drill once a month. We saw and spoke with all of the patients who looked very neat in their coloured blue and pink dresses. These patients took a very active part in the preparations for the move to this house helping to make curtains, table cloths, and other furnishings. The gills also help to make their own clothes. We were shown some of their other hand work, much use is being made of materials which would otherwise have been thrown away. Domestic work and garden work are among other occupations for the patients.