[Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.
- Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1963
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Credit: [Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![its services for ■he we If tij ;he blind and. oartially-sighted persons with defective vision were referred either by their family doctor or the Health Department to che consultant ophthalmic service for examination with greater frequency and regularity, and this meant that patients hitherto registrable but unknown came within the purview of the County Council's scheme » It is significant that since 1954 the number of persons on the register eacii year remained fairly constant „ In fact;, in the four subsequent years the number dropped slightly, while in the ten year period 1994-63 the increase was only 13» By 1963 the total number of people register was 3.59 per thousand of the population, which is h. rate for England and .Yales of 2*03° This high inc: reflection of our high proportion of old people, 13 i /u ;r than Ox WllOffl were over the age o] also over this age* CO 72of our blind population were Another ooint registered -s blma. is that 16*3/o of the population over 5p were whereas below this age the figure was 0*11» Obviously, then, blindness is relative t’-he premise that the population, by 1974 .it is will be over 63 years of < register will continue to estimated .ge, ris an that tne number u 16 * of bl: ana a s 11 of if one ,gly ag> •d< :ept s p opUifl11on persons on the RADNORSHIRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND Mrs. C. H. Medlicott of Knighton, the Honorary Secretary of the Radnor Association for the Blind, submits the following note on the activities undertaken by the Association:- The Annual General Meeting held at Llandrindod Weils May, 1963? the garden party at Cefndyrys, Near Buiith ’.Veils, in June, and the outing to Aberystwyth in September, were well attended by the blind people - Each registered blind and partially-sighted person received a Christmas gift of 03« 02 e or £1« and many letters of appreciatio were received0 Other help to blind persons during the year included assistance with annual holidays and the provision of electric shavers, electric clock and other equipment0 One blind person received a grant towards the cost of a typewriter® Wireless and other sets were received the British Wireless for 1 una, irom](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28875175_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
