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Speech, physio and occupational therapy students attended the Centre
for special training and in addition large numbers of visitors, professional
and lay, visited the Centre from all parts of the world.
WELFARE OF OLD PEOPLE.
To be aware of elderly persons who have problems and to be able to
keep in touch with them is of the utmost importance in providing the help
when it is most urgently needed and, in this connection, the Welfare Officer
visited 191 new cases during the year and made 1,886 re-visits to the 1,200
old people already on the register.
Additional visiting by the British Red Cross Society, the Women's
Voluntary Services and the St. John Ambulance Brigade in connection with
the delivery of meals, recreation and personal cleansing, is of great value
and provides a constant liaison with the Public Health Departments.
Grant
The Borough Council makes a grant of per annum to the Chelsea
Old People's Welfare Committee.
Meals on Wheels
This service, organised and distributed by the voluntary
organisations on five days a week, not only ensures that our more housebound
old people are certain of one good meal a day, but provides a
valuable link with all services available.
Number of meals issued during the year
13,476
Average weekly supply
259
Average number of old persons supplied
67
August 1961, saw the introduction of frozen meals, which were, to
the old people, quite revolutionary and many were suspicious of this new
systems These suspicions were quite successfully overcome by bringing
as many of the regular recipients as possible by car to a demonstration
lunch at the Community Centre which was kindly arranged by Messrs<> Lyons,
from whom a weekly delivery of foods is obtained and stored in a deep
freeze unit at the Centre. Since the inception of these meals they
have become generally appreciated and the variety of dishes has considerably
increased. The cost of each meal to the old people is
Is. Od. per day and the preparation requires fifteen minutes only in
a saucepan of boiling water.
Chiropody - Domiciliary Service
168 persons received 648 treatments given by two fully qualified
chiropodists working six days a month between them. All applicants