[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City.

  • Aberdeen (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (4) Chiropody Service.—This service is discussed in the section on care and after-care. (5) Meals-on-wheels Service.—This service is run by the W.V.S. and sub- sidised by the Corporation. During the year the Corporation paid £123 for 3,690 meals supplied. WELFARE SERVICES (Section 29). (а) Cripples and other handicapped persons. Under the National Assistance Act, the Corporation have very definite responsibilities for the welfare and training of cripples. By the end of 1952 an administrative scheme had been drafted setting forth certain means by which these responsibilities could be discharged. This scheme will be submitted to the Corporation early in 1953. (б) Blind Persons. A clinic for the examination and ascertainment of blind persons is held each month at Woolmanhill, and is staffed by two consultants employed by the North- Eastern Regional Hospital Board and by a health visitor employed by the Corporation. The Corporation carry out their responsibility for the blind under the Act through the agency of the Royal Aberdeen Asylum for the Blind, who provide training and employment in their workshops in Aberdeen, and the Aber- deen Association for the teaching of the Blind in their Homes, who employ home teachers for the training of the blind and provide certain welfare services. In addition, the Corporation utilise the services provided by certain other voluntary organisations. The following is a summary of the organisations and the payments made to them : — Royal Aberdeen Asylum for the Blind.—For the financial year ended 31st March, 1952, the Corporation paid to the Royal Aberdeen Asylum for the Blind the sum of £142 16s. in respect of each City worker registered under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1944. There were 50 workers employed, and the total cost to the Corporation was £7.140; of this sum a grant at the rate of £80 per annum for each worker was recovered from the Ministry of Labour and National Service, making the net expenditure to the Corporation £3,140. Aberdeen Association for Teaching the Blind in their Homes.—The sum of £2 5s. per annum is paid in respect of each certified blind person from Aberdeen on their roll. In addition, a grant of £20 per annum is made to the Association in respect of home workers who are assisted financially by the Association. At the end of the last financial year there were 236 certified blind persons on the roll, including 4 home workers, and the sum of £611 was paid by the Corporation to the Association.