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- 1ll -
Grab-rails in bathrooms and toilets.
Installing a safety gate at top of stairs.
Handrails by a garage for Invacar.
Two examples can be quoted of help given to severly disabled
residents of the Borough:-
An elderly man was admitted to hospital suffering from a stroke.
The medical social worker advised that he would be unable to bathe or
use the toilet on discharge. Several aids to bathing were supplied,
grab-rails installed and the bathroom door was rehung to open in the
opposite direction, thus giving more room for the man to manoeuvre.
A housebound woman confined to a wheelchair lost her husband and
found great difficulty in negotiating her chair between the kitchen
and the bathroom because of the differing floor levels. The levels
were adjusted, thus enabling the woman to manoeuvre her wheelchair
safely and achieve a degree of independence in mobility.
Table I - Analysis of Persons on the General Classes Register according
to Age and Handicap
Code
Major Handicaps
Age Groups
Total
Under
16
16-29
30-49
50-64
65 and
over
A/E
Amputation
-
2
2
12
29
45
F
Arthritis or Rheumatism
-
2
5
64
348
419
G
Congenital malformations
or deformities
1
1
4
6
12
24
H/L
Diseases of the digestive
and genito-urinary,
heart, circulatory and
respiratory systems
1
2
15
54
211
283
Q/T
Injuries of head, face,
neck, thorax, abdomen,
pelvis, trunk, limbs
and spine
3
3
10
28
134
178
V
Organic nervous diseases,
epilepsy, poliomyelitis,
multiple sclerosis, etc.
4
20
52
94
145
315
U/W
Neuroses, psychoses
other than in 'V'
above
—
-
1
2
14
17
XY
Tuberculosis, respiratory
and non-respiratory
-
-
3
3
2
8
Z
Diseases and injuries
not specified
-
-
3
10
50
63
TOTAL
9
30
95
273
945
1352
(9)
(31)
(87)
(230)
(689)
(1046)