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TABLE II - NSW REGISTRATIONS DURING 1969. ANALYSIS OF DISABILITIES
Disability
No. of
Persons
No. of
Persons
Amputation of leg
2
Hysterectomy
1
Anaemia
3
Injured head
1
Angina
2
Injured legs
1
Arteriosclerosis
2
Injured spine
6
Arthritis
89
Kidney transplant
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Arthrodesis of leg
1
Kyphosis
4
Asthma
8
Liver infection
4
Ataxia
1
Migraine
1
Bronchitis
20
Mongoloid
1
Carcinoma
15
Multiple sclerosis
8
Cardiac condition
48
Muscular dystrophy
1
Cirrhosis of liver
1
Neuritis
1
Club foot
1
Obesity
1
Colostomy
8
Oesophageal dilation
1
Crippled back (congenital)
2
Osteoarthritis
8
Diabetes
12
Osteomyolitis
2
Diverticulitis
1
Osteotomy
1
Emphysema
2
Parkinson's disease
6
Epilepsy
4
Poliomyelitis
4
Fractured femur
4
Rheumatism
3
Fractured hip
3
Sclerosis of lungs
1
Fractured pelvis
1
Senility
9
Fractured wrist
1
Spasticity
2
Gout
2
Spondylitis
4
Hemiplegia
30
Stroke
88
Hiatus hernia
1
Syringomyelitis
1
Hydrocephalus
1
Thrombosis
3
Hypertension
4
Tuberculosis (quiescent)
3
Ulcors (leg)
6
Ulcers (stomach)
3
TOTAL
365
TRANSPORT
The Council has five vehicles (four coaches with hydraulic lifts and
one utilabus) for transporting handicapped persons between their homes
and social and rehabilitation centres, elderly persons to residential
accommodation and homeless families and unmarried mothers to temporary
accommodation. In addition, they are used for delivering aids and
gadgets to the blind and handicapped, for taking residents of welfare
homes on regular outings and on specially organised shopping trips, and
delivery of meals from St. George*s Hall to Luncheon Clubs within the
Borough. During the Council's organised holidays they transported the
blind, handicapped and elderly to and from their homos to the assembly
points and in some cases direct to and from holiday homes. A coach with
a lift was stationed at the holiday camp in Kent to enable the elderly
and handicapped to be taken on outings to nearby shops and church services.
Voluntary organisations are granted use of the transport for approved
purposes in the evenings and at weekends. They have availed themselves
of this services on over $00 occasions.
The total mileage travelled in covering all these commitments
amounted to 53,000 (50,000) miles.