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Registered Blind and Partially Sighted People Year ending 31 March 2000

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    19 May 2004

Personal Social Services: Local Authority Statistics

This publication contains detailed statistics on persons registered with Local Authority Social Services departments in England as being blind or partially sighted. The data are compiled from the trienniel return SSDA 902 submitted by Local Authorities to the Department of Health (Statistics Division 3B).

The local authority tables in this publication contain information relating to the year ended 31 March 2000.

Summary historical information for England is included in the tables which follow this introduction.

Local Authority Tables

Table B1: Number of blind people registered with local authorities by age group, at 31 March 2000

Table PS1: Number of partially sighted people registered with local authorities by age group, at 31 March 2000

Table B2: Blind people registered as new cases by age group, during the year ending 31 March 2000

Table PS2: Partially sighted people registered as new cases by age group, during the year ending 31 March 2000

Table B3: Number of registered blind people with an additional disability by category of disability, at 31 March 2000

Table B4: Number of blind people registered who have additional disabilities, by age group at 31 March 2000

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