ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the wide variety of non-medical treatment and training facilities which are available in subnormality hospitals. In the thirty-four hospitals visited, all but four offered some kind of teaching facilities either in the main unit, or, if they had no children there, in a subsidiary unit. The presence of qualified staff did not appear to be related either to total size of hospital, nor to region, though it happens that two hospitals in the Manchester region did have more qualified staff than other hospitals sampled. Some teachers thought schools in subnormality hospitals should come under the auspices of the education authority: 'It's not good for professional relationships to have educationalists under the control of medical staff. The smallest adult school was in one of the largest hospitals. The male occupational therapist in the same hospital also complained of a lack of co-operation from the nursing staff, but he felt even more strongly about failure of liaison with doctors.
