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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 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Male | Female | Total | ||||||
| Day Hospitals | (3) | (3) | ||||||
| Waylands - Health Wing | 1 | 1 | (1) | (1) | ||||
| Waylands - Welfare Wing | 1 | • | 1 | |||||
| Terminated | 12 | (16) | 4 | (4) | 16 | (20) | ||
| Non sheltered workshop | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 43 | (51) | 19 | (13) | 62 | (64) | |||
| Average daily attendance during the year: | 21 | (30) | ||||||
| Total income from industrial work (approx.): | £5,965. | 16. 2. | ||||||
| Statistics concerning severely disabled in the Health Wing of the Waylands Craftwork, Training and Social Centre were as follows:- Numbers of severely disabled persons attending the Health Wing at 31.12.70: | ||||||||
| Mental illness | 1 | (5) | (1) | 1 | (6) | |||
| Subnormality | 10 | (11) | 12 | (20) | 22 | (31) | ||
| Severe Subnormality | 40 | (48) | 23 | (30) | 63 | (78) | ||
| Physical handicap | 2 | (2) | 2 | (1) | 4 | (3) | ||
| 53 | (66) | 37 | (52) | 90 | (118) | |||
| Coldharbour School | 1 | (1) | 1 | (1) | (2) | |||
| St. Christopher's E.S.N. School | 2 | (2) | 1 | (1) | 3 | (3) | ||
| Careers Officer | 2 | (1) | (2) | 2 | (3) | |||
| Social Worker | - | (3) | 1 | 1 | (3) | |||
| Crosfield Assessment and Rehabilitation Section | 1 | 1 | (1) | 2 | (1) | |||
| Other Sources | 7 | (2) | 1 | (2) | 8 | (4) | ||
| 13 | (9) | 5 | (7) | 18 | (16) | |||
| Crosfield Assessment and | ||||||||
| Rehabilitation Section | 4 | (4) | 1 | (4) | 5 | (8) | ||
| Left area | - | (2) | 1 | (1) | 1 | (3) | ||
| Open employment | 1 | • | (1) | 1 | (1) | |||
| Day Centre | 1 | (1) | 1 | (1) | ||||
| Other sources | 1 | (2) | 3 | (3) | 4 | (5) | ||
| Cherry Orchard Centre | 22 | H | 12 | 34 | ||||
| 28 | (8) | 18 | (10) | 46 | (18) | |||