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St Pancras 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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BLIND PERSONS
It is the practice of the Public Health Department for Sanitary Inspectors
to pay visits during the year to all St Pancras persons known to the Public
Health Department to be blind with a view to seeing whether there are any
sanitary defects which, on account of his disability, the blind person has failed
to notice. Apart from this, we find these visits are welcomed by blind persons,
who look upon the Sanitary Inspector as an additional friend.,
At the beginning of the year there were 58 blind persons known to the Department,
During 1955 seven died and five moved from the district, but we received
information of eight additional persons
The conditions under which they were living were reasonably satisfactory,
and in only one case was it necessary to serve a notice
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