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Chiropody
The Red Cross Society has now two clinics per week on
Thursday mornings and afternoons, and on two Thursdays per
month there is a double session with a second chiropodist
running a duplicate service. The clinics are very popular and
there is a long waiting list. Approximately 1,395 treatments
were given last year.
The U.G.S. Settlement clinic is now run weekly on Tuesday
mornings and approximately 480 to 500 treatments were given
during the past year. This clinic also has a long waiting list.
Cambridge House clinic (for Club Members only) is held on
one Monday and one Wednesday per month. Patients numbering
223 were treated there during the past year. This
service is extremely popular with the Club Members.
Each of these three Clinics receives a Grant-in-Aid from
the Association.
The Association's own Foot Clinic has now two sessions per
week, on Monday mornings and afternoons. This is held in the
W.V.S. Centre, 47, Camberwell Church Street, S.E.5. Approximately
637 treatments were given during the past year. There
is a waiting list also at this clinic.
The Mobile Service has been running an average of three to
four clinics per month and there is always a waiting list.
Approximately 195 housebound old people have been treated
during the past year. Application for treatment by this
Service has to be made direct to the Association and the patient
must be certified as "housebound" by a Doctor, Nurse or
Health Visitor.
The charge to all patients at all clinics is 1s. 6d. per treatment
and this is always most cheerfully paid.
Clubs
The Club for lonely elderly people which was inaugurated
on January 19th, 1954, at the Troy Town Communal Centre,
Nigel Road, is proving a very great success. The membership
is now over 90. This Club is run by an Ad Hoc Committee
composed of some members chosen from the Camberwell Old
People's Welfare Association, some from the Camberwell
Housing Society and some co-opted members. The personnel
is organised by the Women's Voluntary Services Centre, and
Mrs. B. M. Johnson (herself a member of the W.V.S.) is a most
competent and charming Hon. Secretary and Club Leader.