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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
Havering 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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2. Blind and Partially Sighted
(a) Blind
The number of resident blind persons in the Borough is given in the following table:-
| Sex | AGE GROUPS | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 | 2-4 | 5-15 | 16-20 | 21-49 | 50-64 | 65 + | ||
| M | - | 4 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 16 | 83 | 141 |
| F | - | - | 3 | - | 17 | 24 | 179 | 223 |
| Total | - | 4 | 8 | 1 | 49 | 40 | 262 | 364 |
Additions to the register of blind persons during the year numbered 50 as compared with 37 in the previous year. The ages of these persons were as follows:-
| Sex | AGE GROUPS | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 | 2-4 | 5-15 | 16-20 | 21-49 | 50-64 | 65† | ||
| M | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 17 | 24 |
| F | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 23 | 26 | |
| Total | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 40 | 50 |
Employment
27 blind persons were in employment at the end of the year,
2 being in special workshops, 4 in home workers schemes and
21 in open employment and their various occupations were as
follows:-
| Proprietors, Managers & Executive Workers | 2 |
| Typists, Shorthand Typists, Secretaries | 6 |
| Telephone Operators | 3 |
| Working Proprietors, Shop Managers | |
| Animal husbandry (including poultry keeping) | |
| Machine Operators (Engineering) |