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 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]
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APPENDIX 29
STATISTICS OF THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED MINISTRY CATEGORIES
| No. as at 31.12.69 | |
|---|---|
| Amputation | 44 |
| Arthritis and Rheumatism | 432 |
| Congenital Malformations and Deformities | 39 |
| 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 | 89 |
| 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 | 122 |
| Organic nervous diseases - epilepsy, disseminated sclerosis, poliomyelitis, hemiplegia, sciatica etc | 370 |
| Neuroses, psychoses and other nervous and mental disorders | 5 |
| Tuberculosis (respiratory) | 2 |
| Tuberculosis (non-respiratory) | 7 |
| Diseases not listed above | 1 |
| Total | 1,111 |
| Deaf and Hard of Hearing: | |
| Deaf with speech | 77 |
| Deaf without speech | 48 |
| Hard of hearing | 56 |
| Total | 182 |
| Blind and Partially Sighted: | |
| Blind | 395 |
| Partially sighted | 168 |
| Total | 563 |