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BLIND PERSONS ACT,1920 .
Close co-operation has been maintained with the Croydon Voluntary
Association for the Blind. The Blind persons residing in Croydon are
now visited at regular end frequent intervals by the Health Visitors
and any circumstances in their reports justifying further investigation
are followed up.
I am indebted to the Secretory of the Voluntary Association for
the figures below:-
Number of blind on Register 396
Number of blind who benefit from instruction
in Braille or Moon t,ype (including those who
already read) 89
Number of blind who benefit from past-time
instruction 56
Number in remunerative handicrafts
(a) Home worker 40
(b) In workshops 4
(c) St. Dunstah's 8
(d) Workers not included in scheme. 17
Home Teacher 1
The Health Visitors paid 577 visits to blind persons during the
year.
The following table shows : (a) the number of blind persons
registered, (b) the ages at which blindness occurred:
(c) the method of training: (d) the occupations of employed
blind persons: (e) the defective blind: and (f) the
unemployable blind persons in homes, mental hospitals
of Institutions.
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