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(e) The Home from Home Club, at The Quest,
85, Clarendon Road, were granted £12, 9s. Od.
towards the cost of purchasing cutlery.
(f) The Home from Home Club (previously at the
Royal Palace Hotel), organised by the Women's
Voluntary Services, re-opened at St. Mary
Abbot's Vicarage during the year. A grant not
exceeding £60 was authorised towards meeting
the running costs.
Holidays
Since April, 1951, the Council, in co-operation with the
Family Welfare Association, have operated a scheme for providing
holidays for old people.
During 1961, a block booking of sixty places was made on
the ground and first floors of Lennox House Holiday Home, Southsea,
for the months of May and June; and forty-eight places were booked
with the Ramsgate and District Hotel and Boarding House Association
for the period May to June, and thirty for September. The terms
quoted for Lennox House were £4.10s. 0d. per week, and for Ramsgate
£4. 7s. 6d. per week. Private coaches were hired to take the old
people to and from these homes and convenient assembly points in the
borough were arranged.
As in other years, applications for holidays were investigated
by the Woman Health Officer, approved by the Chairman of the
Public Health Committee, and were then passed to the Family Welfare
Association for the holiday arrangements. A sum of five shillings
per booking was paid to the Family Welfare Association towards their
administration expenses.
Each applicant is required to pay £2 per week towards the
cost of the holiday, unless this payment is abated on the authority
of the Chairman of the Public Health Committee. There was no case
in which difficulty in making this payment occurred, and the holiday
scheme was successfully carried out.
The following is a summary of the action taken during 1961:-
Total number of old people who applied 163
Considered unsuitable on medical grounds 6
Referred to L.C.C. for recuperative
holidays 4 10
Number of applications approved by the Chairman 153
Cancellations after approval 17
136
Number sent on holiday
To Lennox House, Southsea 58
To Ramsgate 78
Total 136