London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington and Chelsea 1966
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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blind and a Hoyer Lifter, the cost of these totalling £176.14s.Od.
161 articles of medical loan equipment were issued. A total of
£391.6s.5d. has been spent on special grants for handicapped persons on
the following items
Grab-rails in toilets and bathrooms in five cases
Handrails by steps
Handrails in kitchen and bathrooms and passage
Erection of pavement crossover
Erection of concrete ramp
Installing special bath, grab-rails, widening doors
and providing ramp
Installing special bath and grab-rails
Alteration to coal store and installing grab-rails
to flat
Table I - Analysis of Persons on the General Classes Register according to Age and Handicap
| Code | Major Handicaps | Age | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 16 | 16-29 | 30-49 | 50-64 | 65 and over | Total | ||
| A/E | Amputation | 2 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 29 | |
| F | Arthritis or Rheumatism | 1 | 2 | 46 | 133 | 182 | |
| GG | Congenital malformations or deformities | - | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | |
| H/L | Diseases of the digestive and genito-urinary, heart, circulatory and respiratory systems | - | 2 | 9 | 43 | 111 | 165 |
| 0/T | Injuries of head, face, neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, trunk, limbs and spine | 2 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 68 | 104 |
| V | Organic nervous diseases, epilepsy, poliomyelitis, multiple sclerosis, etc. | 3 | 18 | 39 | 67 | 64 | 191 |
| Neuroses, psychoses other than in 'V' above | - | - | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | |
| XNY | Tuberculosis, respiratory and non-respiratory | - | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Z | Diseases and injuries not specified | 2 | - | 4 | 9 | 26 | 41 |
| TOTAL | 7 | 28 | 73 | 196 | 435 | 739 | |