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Community Care
Radio Sets
Acting on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund, the department issued 32 new sets and
two secondhand sets to blind persons during the year. The Council keeps the sets in repair and provides
batteries when required. Wireless licence exemption certificates were supplied to 41 new cases.
Deaf Blind Persons
There are two persons on the register who are deaf blind, and two who are deaf/partially-sighted.
These people need special attention, and this Borough is sharing the services of a specialist Deaf Blind
Home Teacher who is employed by the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames.
A special holiday at Littlehampton was arranged for the deaf blind during the summer and two
persons from this Borough were included.
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
One blind person from the Borough received a guide dog.
Domiciliary Visits
During the year, Home teachers of the Blind made 1,831 domiciliary visits to blind and partiallysighted
persons.
Middlesex Association for the Blind
This voluntary association continued to give valuable support to the blind and partially-sighted
persons in the Borough, both by assisting financially and by organising various functions of interest
to them.
Industrial Rehabilitation
In conjunction with the Ministry of Labour, arrangements were made for three persons from the
Borough to undergo a period of industrial rehabilitation. Two of these have since been found employment
by the Blind Persons Resettlement Officer of the Ministry.
PEACE-TIME EMERGENCIES
The Council has a scheme for providing temporary shelter for large numbers of people who may
be rendered homeless by fire, flood, air disaster or other emergency. Various meeting halls and Civil
Defence premises have been earmarked for this purpose, but during the year it was not necessary to
use any of them.