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"The Vane," Denbridge Road, Bickley, and "Town Court," Wells
Road, Bickley.

"Dunoran," Park Farm Road, Bickley.
The Bermondsey and Southwark Group Hospital Management
Committee is the Authority responsible for this Home, and
I am indebted to the Medical Superintendent of the Home for
the following information:—
"During the year ended 31st December, 1952, eighty-three
patients were admitted to Dunoran Home, fifty-three were discharged,
and twenty-nine died. The bed complement was thirtyeight,
and the average daily number of beds occupied was 36.9.
The Home has continued to admit both dying and chronic
patients, taking when possible chronic patients of the younger
age group. In the summer a number of the permanent patients
were sent for two weeks' holiday at the seaside, and beds thus
temporarily vacant were used to take bedfast patients from their
own homes, giving a respite and an opportunity for a holiday to
relatives normally caring for them."
"Homefield" and "Elmwood," Southborough Road, Bickley.
The Bermondsey Medical Mission are responsible for the
above Homes, and I am indebted to the Matron for the following
information:—
"Homefield" was opened with the help of the King Edward
Hospital Fund as a Home for the aged sick in October, 1950, and
has thirty-four beds.
Some of the patients are able after a short or long stay to
return to their own homes, and some get well enough to go on to
Old People's Homes, and some finally return to hospital. Since
the Home opened in 1950. two hundred patients have been
accommodated. They are nursed in small wards of 3 to 9 beds,
with a few single rooms, under conditions as home-like as is
possible, and mostly get up every day for a short or longer time.
Very few are fit to go out even in cars, but kind friends come
and entertain them from time to time with music, films, or other