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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 1933
[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 31.3.34, are set out:—
TABLE 13.
Welfare of the Blind.—Registration. .4s
| Age Period 0—5 | Age Period 5—16 | Age Period 16—21 | Age Period 21—30 | Age Period 30—40 | Age Period 40—50 | Age 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 26 | 16 | 12 | 28 | 31 | 23 | 54 | 34 | 50 | 84 | 121 | 111 | 232 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | 8 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 8 | 27 | 21 | 25 | 46 | 15 | 21 | 36 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 (a) | Home Workers (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. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 27 | 4 | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 86 | 95 | 181 | 118 | 108 | 226 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | Hoine 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 | Uphol-sterers | Pan | wiredrawn | Hand | Machine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Within Institutions | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| in approved Home Workers Schemes | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Others (not pastime Workers) | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Totai. | 1 | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 4 | 2 | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||