London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Redbridge 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]
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APPENDIX 26
STATISTICS OF THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
MINISTRY CATEGORIES
No. as at 31.12.68
Amputation 45
Arthritis and Rheumatism 381
Congenital Malformations and Deformities 33
Diseases of the digestive and genito-urinary systems; of the heart or circulatory
system; of the respiratory system (other than tuberculosis) and of the skin 99
Injuries of the face, head, neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis or trunk. Injuries or
diseases (other than tuberculosis) of the upper and lower limbs and of the spine 125
Organic nervous diseases — epilepsy, disseminated sclerosis, poliomyelitis, hemiplegia,
sciatica etc. 331
Neuroses, psychoses and other nervous and mental disorders 5
Tuberculosis (respiratory) 2
Tuberculosis (non-respiratory) 9
Diseases not listed above -
Total 1,030
Deaf and Hard of Hearing:
Deaf with speech 76
Deaf without speech 41
Hard of hearing
Total 174
Blind and Partially Sighted:
Blind 384
Partially sighted 161
Total 545