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GENERAL PROVISION FOR HEALTH
SERVICES IN THE AREA.
Welfare of Aged Persons.
The Council provides financial assistance to the Camberwell
Old People's Welfare Association to enable them to carry out
their various activities for the care of the aged. Office accommodation
is also provided at the Town Hall for the Organising
Secretary of the Association.
Meals on Wheels and Dinner Clubs.
There are two dinner clubs in the Borough where old people
may attend and purchase a meal at reduced cost —one at the
U.G.S Settlement, Staffordshire Street, Peckham and the other
at the Women's Voluntary Services, 47 Camberwell Church
Street, S.E.5.
The "Meals on Wheels" Service provides for those elderly
persons who are too frail or incapacitated to cook for themselves
or attend a dinner club. The whole of the Borough is covered
by this service, which is conducted in conjunction with the
Women's Voluntary Services, the Union of Girls' Schools Settlement
and the London County Council Londoners Meals Service.
In the case of meals collected from L.C.C. restaurants, that
Authority subsidises part of the cost of the meal. Transport
for the delivery of the meals is provided by a van belonging to
the Camberwell Old People's Welfare Association, a van and
driver loaned by the Council for approximately two hours at
mid-day on four days each week, and by the Women's Voluntary
Services volunteer cars. The number of meals provided by this
service during 1952 was approximately 15,000.
Night Sitter-in Service.
This service was put into operation during the year under
review by the Camberwell Old People's Welfare Association,
and provides for attendants to sit up throughout the night with
elderly invalids in emergency cases or where relatives or friends,
who are looking after the old person, are in need of a few nights
rest. A charge of ten-shillings per night is normally made for
this service but may be reduced in exceptional circumstances,
each case being treated on its merits.