News and Notes
C.A.M.W. Conference. Readers are reminded that a Report of the Conference proceedings is being” published by the C.A.M.W.?price 3/6 per copy.
New Local Associations.
During- the year three new Associations have been affiliated to the C.A.M.W. ?Cumberland and Westmorland, Isle of Ely, and Lines (Parts of Lindsey) (where the Child Welfare Association has undertaken Mental Welfare work by aid of a grant from the County). Further developments are in progress in other counties. Mental Deficiency Bill.
We had hoped that this Bill would have become law before the close of the session. It came from the House of Lords, and passed the second reading and the Committee stage with but little amendment, and it was confidently expected that it would easily pass the third reading. There were, however, so many amendments handed in by the Labour Party, that the Government felt obliged to withdraw it.
We are of opinion that there was a great deal of misapprehension about the Bill. There was, we believe, no ground for supposing that it would have brought within the Mental Deficiency Act persons who were not intended to be included in the original Act. Several clauses of the Bill embodied administrative changes which would have been exceedingly helpful to the proper carrying out of the aims of the 1913 Act, and we cannot but hope that the Government will before long see its way to introduce a new Bill.
C.A.M.W. Gourses.
The first Course to be held this year will be the Course for Magistrates, from Tuesday, February 8th, to Thursday, February 10th, of which fuller particulars are given on page 39.
Two Short Courses for Teachers, organised by the C.A.M.W. for the Board of Education, will be held, at Nottingham, from April 20th, to May 11th, and at Birmingham, from July 6th, to July 27th.
A Ten Weeks’ Course for Teachers will be held from May 2nd to July 9th, in London, mainly intended to give an opportunity of more complete training for those who desire to teach mentally deficient and dull and backward children, but who have not had experience.
A Refresher Course, limited to those Teachers who have attended not less than one course previously, will be held from August 8th, to August 13th, at Bangor, N. Wales.
The Course for Medical Practitioners, arranged in conjunction with the London University Extension Board, will be held from May 23rd, to May 28th, at the Imperial Institute.
A Special Course, from March 25th to April 14th, is to be held in London, for Officers of Local Authorities engaged in the ascertainment and supervision of Defectives, and for Occupation Centre Supervisors and Nurses and Attendants in Institutions and Mental Hospitals. ? . , , This Course is especially designed to meet the difficulties usually met with by such workers, and the practical work will be varied accordingly. Fuller particulars are given on page 39.
Board of Control.
On the recommendation of the Minister of Health, the King has been pleased to appoint Dr Robert Cunyngham Brown, C.B.E., to be a Commissioner of the Board of Control, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Dr Robert Welsh Branthwaite, C.B.
Portsmouth Voluntary Association for Mental Welfare.
An interesting new development has recently taken place in Portsmouth. Dr. Beaton, who has succeeded Dr Devine as Medical Superintendent of the City Mental Hospital, has arranged to hold a clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases m the Out-Patient Department of the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, which has been ‘ent to him for the purpose by the Hospital Committee. The Clinic is the outcome ?f negotiations between Dr Beaton and the Association for Mental \ elfare, which is already fortunate in having all cases of mentakdefect referred by the Association examined at the Mental Hospital.
The new departure is intended to encourage patients sulfering from nervous conditions and mild psychotic disturbances, to seek early treatment, and it is clear that the use of the Out-Patient Department of the General Hospital will facilitate this. The Secretary of the Association is to be in attendance at the Clinic, to assist in the investigation of the cases, and to do the following-up. Encephalitis Lethargica.
Weekly notifications (reproduced from the Lancet). Week ending Week ending Week ending Oct. 2 44 Nov. 6 49 Dec. 4 38 ,, 9 33 >> 13 35 ” If ? 16 33 ? 20 46 ? 18 41 ? 23 37 ,> 27 61 ,, 2j 29 ,, 30 33 “180 191 150 Total 521
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