Meet Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare
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1920, to visit and befriend all mentally handicapped people living at home and to help and advise parents about home care, especially the early training of young children. It assisted the local authority in administering the services provided under the Mental Deficiency Act. The newly-formed Association was faced with the tremendous task of compiling a register of mentally sub-normal persons in the County, so that thought could be given to the type of services that might be needed. The only help then available was under the Poor Law Act. There were no training centres or special schools in Stafford-shire and institutional care was extremely difficult to obtain.
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The Essential Unity of the Mental Problem *The Annual Address to the Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare, delivered at Stafford on 30th April, 1927, illustrated by wall diagrams.
By W. F. Menzies, M.D., B.Sc., F.R.C.P. I must thank most cordially the Committee of the Staffordshire Association for Mental Welfare for their kindness in inviting me to fulfil this year the pleasingduty of deliveringthe Annual Address, and I hope what I have to say will be neither too boring nor too far divorced from problems connected with the daily work of the Association. I have chosen as ...
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