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Croydon 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The tables below give figures for 1933.
Table CI I. FOSTER CHILDREN
| No. as at Dec, 31st, 1933 | Notice of Reception of Children during the year | Notice of Removal to— | Children Adopted | Died | Children reaching age of 0 | No. as at December 3lst, 1033 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | Another area with Foster Parent | Another Foster Mother | Public Institution | ||||||
| 244 | 279 | 93 | 6 | 83 | 26 | 29 | 3 | 9 | 274 |
Table CIII. FOSTER MOTHERS.
| No. as at Dec. 31st, 1933 | Applications for Registration during the year | Removals during the year | t Registration cancelled for othet reasons | No. as at December 31st, 1933 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With Child | Without Child | ||||
| 258 | 69 | 5 | 22 | 93 | 207 |
The Health Visitors paid 3,058 visits to Foster Mothers for
the purposes of supervision.
Blind Persons Act, 1920.
Under Section 102 (1) of the Local Government Act, 1929,
the Minister of Health was required to make a scheme providing
for payments of contributions of such amounts as might be specified
ir, the scheme to any voluntary association which provided services
for the welfare of the blind, by the Councils of Counties and County
Boroughs in which are resident blind persons for whose benefit the
services are provided.
The scheme, which came into force on April 1st, 1930, has
continued during 1933.
Under this scheme the Council pays grants to twelve societies,
among which by far the largest grant is made to the Croydon
Voluntary Association for the Blind.
The visitation of home teachers, employees of workshops, home
workers and inmates of homes subject to greart are now carried out
by the Medical Officer of Health who reports from time to time to
the Blind Persons Act Committee.