Authorized Officer’s Guide
- Author:
Squire Hoyle
and T. S. Hawkesworth. With a Foreword by Dr I. G. Davies, Medical Officer of Health for Leeds. Elsworth Bros., Bowman Lane, Leeds 10. Price 3s. 3d. post free. This is the latest addition to available literature for the enlightenment of those whose duties necessitate an understanding of the changes in mental health administration brought about by recent legislation.
The National Association for Mental Health published last summer a small pamphlet on ” Legislation relating to Mental Patients” and also brought up to date its existing pamphlet on “Legislation relating to Mental Defectives”; subsequently the Ministry of Health placed on sale its more weighty ” Provisions relating to the Mental Health Services Now comes this most useful additional contribution made by two Officers actively engaged in administering the new law? one as Executive Officer, dealing with the Mental Deficiency Acts, the other as Senior Authorized Officer dealing with Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, and both working under a Health Authority justly referred to in the Foreword as one which has been for many years ” a pioneer in mental health administration “.
The booklet?divided into two sections?contains a summary of all the points on legal procedure and practice connected with mental deficiency and lunacy administration which the Duly Authorized Officer should know.
Its concluding paragraphs reveal the spirit in which the writers have approached their task. They regard it, they say with humility, as ” purely an attempt by officers engaged in the work to assist their colleagues in the service and to embody in it ” many of the ideas and methods that have from time to time been given by them verbally at lectures organized by the National Association for Mental Health to new and inexperienced workers in the field
To these ” new and inexperienced workers “, as well as to other Mental Health workers called upon to undertake additional and unfamiliar duties, this is a booklet which can be warmly recommended. A.L.H.
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