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Chiropody.
Chiropody clinics for old people are conducted by the
British Red Cross Society, the Union of Girls' Schools Settlement
and by Cambridge House (for members of its Old People's Club
only). The charge to patients at all these clinics is one shilling
and sixpence per treatment. A Mobile Chiropody Unit was also
established during the year to visit and treat old persons who
are unable to attend one of the clinics.
Old People's Clubs.
At the end of the year there were 17 old people's clubs in
the Borough. Any assistance to these clubs for the provision
of games and/or equipment is made by the Camberwell Old
People's Welfare Association from the grant made by the Borough
Council. At Cambridge House, in addition to the social activities
of the club, a Crafts Class is conducted under the guidance of an
instructor.
In January of the year under review, a display was held at
the Town Hall by the Camberwell Old People's Welfare Association,
at which were exhibited a number of items of handwork
by members of Old People's Clubs throughout the Borough.
Mobile Library Service.
The Council have provided a Mobile Library, which is
under the control of the Libraries Department, to visit the
homes of aged and infirm persons whose disability prevents
them from attending at one of the Council's Public Libraries.
Domiciliary Supervision.
The Council's Sanitary Inspectors paid 170 visits during
the year to old people known to the Public Health Department
to be approaching a condition where they are finding increasing
difficulty in caring for themselves and keeping their homes in a
clean and sanitary condition. Where necessary, the London
County Council were asked to provide the services of a homehelp
and/or district nurse, and close co-operation was maintained
with the Camberwell Old People's Welfare Association.
It is a tribute to the services of the officers of the Council
and members of voluntary organisations who have to deal with
aged persons that in only one instance during the year did it
become necessary for the Council to exercise the powers conferred
upon them by Section 47 of the National Assistance Act,
1948, to secure the compulsory removal of an aged person to an
Old Persons' Home.