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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
Sutton 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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Statistics
| (l) Estimated number of people over pensionable age in the Borough | 21,090 | |||||
| (2) Number of old people in care of this authority in directly controlled old people's homes (or in other authority's home where we have a sharing arrangement). | 237 | |||||
| Number of old people of Sutton origin elsewhere in old people's homes | 133 | |||||
| Under 60 | 60/70 | 70/80 | 80/90 | 90/100 | over 100 | |
| 7.5% | 29.71% | 49.l% | 12.6% | l.l% | ||
(3) Number of places available in private registered old people's 295
homes.
(4) Number of places available in old people's homes run by 212
voluntary bodies in the Borough
Waiting List
There were on 31st March, 1966 120 elderly persons awaiting admission to Council homes and these fall into the following age categories j-
| Under 60 | 60/70 | 70/80 | 80/90 | 90/100 | over 100 |
| - | 10% | 32.5 % | 50/o | 7.5$ | - |
2. SERVICES FOR THE HANDICAPPED
Introduction
The Borough is charged with the responsibility of providing welfare
schemes for the blind, deaf or dumb and other persons who are substantially
and permanently handicapped by illness, injury and congenital deformity.
(a) The Physically Handicapped
In the year there have been 336 referrals of new cases from all
sources, i.e. from hospitals, general practitioners, other
authorities, voluntary bodies, health visitors and so on. All those
seeking the aid of the handicapped welfare services are put on a
statutory register but registration as such is not compulsory.
Within the definition given the number on the statutory register
as at the 31st March, 1966 stood at 577.
115