[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough.
- Dudley (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1962
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The service to them provides for liome visiting, the giving of general advice and giiidanee, the ])rovision of remedial aids and ada})tations and a holiday scheme. Pastime oeenpation is also available in a centre (where meals are provided) and at home. About 15 handicapped persons attend the handicraft centre on each of three days per week (45 persons in all) and there are a further 15 home- bound handieap})ed j^ersons who recpiire instruction at home. In the ])lan for the development of Welfare Services over the next 10 years, a temporary all purpose building to eome into use early in 1065 was proposed. This building will include social and pastime oeeu})ation facilities and provide experience for the develo|)ment of a purpose built centre by 1971/2. Appropriate voluntary services are provided by the Dudley \ ohmtary Association for the Handicapped and include a weekly Social C'lub, outings, friendly visiting, a hairdressing service and the provision of television sets for the housebound. ’'{'here are a number of handieapi^ed {)ersons in need of sheltered employment which it is pro])osed to provide in the new workshops for the blind at Sedgley. Three Ivoeal Authorities and the Institu- tion submitted a scheme to the Ministry of I.abour which was not accepted and at present a panel of industrialists are examining this problem in the light of the recently published report on workshops for the blind. The Welfare Committee's third holiday scheme took place during the year when a party of eighty handicapped persons, escorts and staff spent a week at a holiday camp at Lowestoft. The Register at the 61st December is shown below and is an increase of twenty over the ])revious year. Male Under 16 ijears 16—64 years 65 and over Total — 94 46 140 Female ... — 91 32 123 Total — 185 78 263 Welfare of the Aged at Home The elderly continue to make increasing demands on the Housing, Health and Welfare Services provided by the Local Authority, as well as on the (General Practitioner and Hospital services. The anticipated increase in the elderly population over the next ten years was taken into account in the forward plan of the Local Autliority for the devclo})ment of Health and Welfare Services. Dudley’s elderly population is below the national average (10% compared with 12% but the number of old people per thousand population has grown from 88 in 1951 to 100 in 1961 and it must be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29171271_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
