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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 1932
[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 31.3.33, are set out:-
TABLE 16.
Welfare of the Blind.— Registration.
| Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0—5 | 5—16 | 16—21 | 21—30 | 30—40 | 40— 50 | 50—60 | 60—70 | 70— | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. |
| — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 17 | 9 | 26 | 15 | 12 | 27 | 29 | 23 | 52 | 25 | 46 | 71 | 110 | 108 | 218 |
Ages at which Blindness occurred.
| Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Age Period | Un- Known | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0—1 | 1—5 | 5—10 | 10—20 | 20—30 | 30—40 | 40—50 | 50—60 | 70— | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |
| 15 | 8 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 26 | 20 | 9 | 29 | 17 | 25 | 42 | 11 | 17 | 28 | 9 | |
| 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. |
| 9 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 25 | 11 | 36 | 2 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | 3 | _ | 3 | 75 | 95 | 170 | 108 | 106 | 214 |
| 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 | T uners | Weavers | Miscellaneous | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattress Makers | Machinists | Upholsterers | Pan | Wiredrawn | Hand | Machine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Within Institutions for the Blind | — | 2 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | 15 |
| In approved Home Workers Schemes | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 5 |
| Others (not pastime Workers) | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | 16 |
| Total | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 5 | 2 | 36 |