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is a social gathering with an average attendance of 25, with occasional talks,
and more usually entertainment, A Christmas dinner and Concert and a Summer
Excursion to Hove were arranged in 1962. Members may go away for holidays at
reduced prices to two caravans at Lancing, Sussex provided by public subscription
from the citizens of Brentford and Chiswick and maintained by Middlesex
Association for the Blind.
The British Wireless for the Blind Fund supplies wireless sets to registered
blind persons through the County Council which maintains all sets for blind
and partially-sighted persons.
Other services provided directly by the County Council or through a Registered
agency, include facilities for the placement of blind persons in employment,
courses of residential rehabilitation, training courses for mothers with
blind babies, the supply of embossed literature, special equipment and handcraft
materials, assistance in the disposal of handcrafts, and assisted holidays for
those in need.
WELFARE OF HANDICAPPED PERSONS OTHER THAN BLIND
Schemes for the welfare of handicapped persons other than blind and partially
sighted are operated by the County Council’s Welfare Department under
the National Assistance Act, 1948; these cover the deaf and dumb and hard of
hearing, and other persons who are substantially and permanently handicapped by
crippling diseases or congenital deformity.

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