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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
East Ham 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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In the following tables, the registration of the blind, ages at which blindness occurred, training and employment and occupations, as at 31.3.32, as required by the Ministry of
Health, are set out:—
TABLE 16.
Welfare of the Blind.—Registration.
| Age Period 0—5 | Age Period 5—16 | Age Period 16—21 | Age Period 21—30 | Age Period 30—40 | Age Period 40—50 | Ape Period 50—60 | Age Period 60—70 | Age Period 70— | Total. | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. |
| — | — | — | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 23 | 16 | 12 | 28 | 26 | 19 | 45 | 24 | 40 | 64 | 110 | 101 | 211 |
TABLE 17.
Ages at which Blindness occurred.
| Age Period 0—1 | Age Period 1—5 | Age Period 5—10 | Age Period 10—20 | Age Period 20—30 | Age Period 30—40 | Age Period 40—50 | Age Period 50—60 | Age Period 60—70 | Age Period 70— | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | |
| 17 | 10 | 27 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 21 | 21 | 14 | 35 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 10 |
TABLE 18.
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| Employed | Undergoing Training | Trained but Unemployed | No Training but Trainable | Unemployable | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By Blind Institutions | All others not included in (a) & (b | Total employed | Industrial | Secondary | Professional or University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Workshops | Home Workers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | (j) | (k) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | M. | F. | T. | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 19 | 28 | 12 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 1 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 67 | 84 | 151 | 107 | 98 | 205 | ||||||||||||||
| (b) Occupations of Employed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Agents, Collectors, etc. | Basket Workers | Bedding (including Divans and Ottomans) and Upholstering. | Boot repairers | Brushes | Carpenters and Woodworkers | Chair Seaters | Ministers of Religion | Clerks, Typists | Telephone Operators | Dealers (Tea Agents, Shopkeepers, etc.) | Domestic Servants | Farmers | Hawkers | Home Teachers | Knitters | Labourers | Massage | Mat Makers | Musicians and Music Teachers | Netting Makers | Newsvendors | Porters, Packers and Cleaners | Poultry Farmers | School Teachers | Straw Bagmakers | Tuners | Weavers | Miscellaneous | Total | |||||||||||||||||
| Mattress Makers | Machinists | Upholsterers | Pan | Wiredrawn | Hand | Machine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Within Institutions for the Blind | — | 3 | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | |||||||||||||
| In approved Home Workers Schemes | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Others (not pastime Workers) | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 4 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 5 | 5 | 40 | |||||||||||||