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Number of meals issued during the year 13,510
Average weekly supply 260
Average number of old people supplied 60
Every weekend, voluntary helpers take homemade soup to old people
who are too ill to eat solid food or have just come out of hospital.
Lunch Club
In response to an obvious need, a Lunch Club for pensioners
sponsored and subsidised by the Old People's Welfare Committee opened
on 1st October, 1963 at St. John's Church Hall by arrangement with the
Church authorities. Additional equipment was found by the Committee and
the Women's Voluntary Services who prepare and serve, mainly from bulk frozen
foods, an average of 60 lunches each Tuesday and Thursday at a charge of one
shilling per lunch.
The majority of the old people come from West Chelsea and obviously
benefit, not only from the food, but from the warm and friendly atmosphere
of the Club, which is now working to capacity.
At Christmas time the old people enjoyed a special lunch through
the generosity of the Old People's Welfare Committee and the Women's
Voluntary Services.
HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES SERVING THE BOROUGH.
Hospitals Type of Institution
Brompton Hospital, Fulham Road, S.W. 3. Chest Diseases.
Chelsea Hospital for Women, General
Dovehouse Street, S.W.3.
Granard House, 98, Dovehouse Street, Malignant Diseases
S.W.3. (Part of Royal Marsden
Hospital).
Royal Marsden Hospital, Malignant Diseases
Fulham Road, S.W.3.
Royal Hospital, Royal Hospital Road, Home for Pensioners
S.W.3.
St. Luke's Hospital, Sydney Street, Chronic Sick.
S.W.3.
St. Stephen's Hospital, Fulham Road, General
S.W.10.
The Centre for Spastic Children, Treatment and research of
61, Cheyne Walk, S.W.3. cerebral palsy in the very
young children.
Victoria Hospital for Children, Children's Diseases
Tite Street, S.W.3.
Nursing Homes
Belgravia-Chelsea Nursing Home, Private
39, Royal Avenue, S.W.3.