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BLIND PERSONS ACT, 1920.
Close co-operation has boon maintained with the Croydon Voluntary
Association for the Blind. The Blind persons residing in Croydon are
now visited at regular and frequent intervals by the Health Visitors
and any circumstances in their reports justifying further investigation
are followed up.
I am indebted to the Secretary of the Voluntary Association for
the figures below:-
Number of blind on Register 405
Number of blind who benefit from instruction in
Braille or Moon type (including those who
already read) 91
Number of blind who benefit from pastime
instruction 51
Number in remunerative handicrafts
(a) Home workers 37
(b) In workshops 4
(c) St. Dunstan's 8
(d) Workers not included in scheme 17
Home Teacher 1
The Health Visitors paid 777 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 homos, mental hospitals
or institutions.
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