Annual report of Graylingwell Hospital : 52nd, 1949.

  • Graylingwell Hospital (Chichester, England)
Date:
1949
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Credit: Annual report of Graylingwell Hospital : 52nd, 1949. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT. Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester. 30th June, 1949. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit the Fifty-second Annual Report of your Hospital for the year ended 31st December, 1948, together with an account of its extra-mural services. A. EXTRA-MURAL PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES. 1. OUT-PATIENT CLINICS. The Clinics are held at 2.30 p.m. on Mondays at Horsham Hospital, Tuesdays at Worthing Hospital, and Thursdays at the Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester. Details of the attendances during 1948 are shown below: New Other Total Patients Attendances Attendances Worthing... • • • 227 700 927 Chichester • • • 199 475 674 Horsham... • • • 112 256 868 538 1431 1969 Accompanying the psychiatrist in charge of each clinic are an assistant psychiatrist, a house physician and a psychiatric social worker. In this way continuity of treatment by the same doctor is provided for those patients who subsequently need to enter Graylingwell. It also enables junior members of the medical staff to gain experience in the psycho-neuroses and clinic practice generally. Whenever requested or indicated, the patient can, of course, have a private discussion with the psychiatrist alone. In addition to the regular clinics held at the general hospitals in the County, an active out-patient service is provided at Graylingwell Hospital itself. During 1948, 66 new cases were examined and reported upon and 97 subsequent interviews were given by the senior members of the staff. These patients were seen by appointment—frequently in the evenings and at the