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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
Croydon 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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During the year contracts were obtained from 14 firms. Work
included soldering, taping, assembling radio and television
components, filling and packing various toilet requisites (bath
salts, soap, talcum powder), wire bending, making concrete
blocks, packaging cleaning materials, assembling cardboard boxes
and car accessories.
Further information concerning the Unit is given below: Number of severely disabled persons attending
| 1.1.64 | 31.12.64 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Illness | 5 | 20* | 11* | |
| Mental Subnormality | 9 | 4 | 9 | 6 |
| Severe subnormality | 10 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Physical Handicap | - | - | 9 | 5 |
| 24 | 11 | 46 | 31 | |
* 3 Male and 4 female patients attending daily from Warlingham Park Hospital.
| 10 persons transferred to Unit from Adult Training Centre | 4 | 6 | |||
| 17 persons transferred to Unit from Day Hospital | 11 | 6 | |||
| 22 persons transferred to Unit from Centre for Physically Handicapped | 16 | 6 | |||
| Number placed in open employment | 19 | ||||
| Number placed at Remploy | 1 | ||||
| s. | |||||
| Total amount paid out as pocket money Total Amount paid out as gross wages Total earnings from industry - | 3,604. | 10. | 0. | ||
| 1,235. | 10. | 11. | |||
| approximately | 9,463. | 0. | 0. | ||
It is already clear that this type of Unit can undertake
most semi-skilled forms of work to high standards.
Two general points emerge of importance to the development
of industrial work for the disabled which call for more than
local attention:
1. Industry needs to be made aware of the commercial
possibilities open to them by giving contracts to workshops
for the severely disabled.
2. Research is needed to identify the very many suitable
jobs in all kinds of trades which, if they were known
about, could be satisfactorily undertaken by workshops
for the disabled.