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and collection and deliveries are made twice weekly.
The total number of. persons receiving benefit from the scheme
during the year was 101, the total visits made were 1,885, and
the number of soiled articles collected and taken to the Southwark
Cleansing Station was 17,337.
The total weight of the laundry cleansed was 17.266 lbs,
Holidays for the Elderly
The scheme to send old age pensioners to the sea side for a
week's holiday at the cost of £1 each was continued during 1959.
In order to participate in the scheme a person must be an
old age pensioner, have lived in the Borough of Lambeth for at
least three years and during the same period must not have had a
hoiiday.
The holidays were arranged at Margate in the Spring and
Autumn, the first period being in May and the second in September.
Applications for the Spring holiday were received at a much
greater rate than hitherto - 321 .forms being issued and 279
returned duly completed, Of this number 30 applicants proved
ineligible on the grounds either of having had a holiday within
the 3 years qualifying period, insufficient residential qualifications
or too high an income.
The remaining 249 old fol k were al 1 interviewed but subseauently
11 cancellations reduced the actual number of old people going
on holiday to 238, as under :-