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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

Kingston upon Thames 1966

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]

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Table: The people in this table are engaged in the following occupations:

The people in this table are engaged in the following occupations:

Masseurs andMachine Tool Operators3
Physiotherapists2Storekeepers and
Lecturers, Teachers1Assistants1
Barristers, Solicitors, related workers1Boot and Shoe Repairers1
Piano Tuners1
Musicians/Music Teachers1Craftsmen/Process Workers13
Typists3
Telephone Operators7Labourers1
Working Proprietors/ Shop Managers1Domestic/Cleaners/ Porters2
Shop Assistants/Salesmen1Miscellaneous Workers3
Total= 42

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In addition, the Council is responsible for two home workers
and two employees in sheltered workshops.
Partially Sighted Register
Partially sighted persons are defined as "substantially
and permanently handicapped by congenitally defective vision, or in
whose case illness or injury has caused defective vision of a
substantial and permanently handicapping character."

Table: The following is a summary by age of those persons at present included on the register:

The following is a summary by age of those persons at present included on the register:

Age Groups:0-12-45-1516-2021-4950-6465 & overTotal
Male—1—1661125
Female--2-342837
Total-1219103962
Additions during the year 1966:
Male---1---1
Female------88