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Holidays
The Council have a scheme under which the Family Welfare
Association co-operate in arranging holidays for old people. An
application for a holiday is made to the Medical Officer of Health,
who investigates the applicant's circumstances, and an assessment
is made in accordance with an approved scale of the contribution
towards the expenses which the old person is required to make. When
the application is approved it is referred to the Family Welfare
Association, who make all the arrangements for a holiday. The
Association apply to the Council for reimbursement of expenses after
deducting the contribution from the old person.
Bookings were made at two holiday resorts, Southsea and
Ramsgate. Private coaches were hired to take the old people to
and from these towns, and convenient assembly points in the borough
arranged. The Family Welfare Association undertook the work,
including the bookings at the holiday homes and the hire of the coaches,
and the Council paid towards their administrative expenses the sum of
five shillings for each person (or man and wife) for whom a holiday was
arranged.

Domiciliary Cleansing
Arrangements have been made whereby old people's living
accommodation and household articles are cleansed and, if necessary,
disinfested. The Regional Hospital Boards, the London County Council
and the Kensington Council of Social Service co-operate by providing
temporary accommodation, where necessary, while the old people's
belongings are being dealt with at the disinfecting station. Twenty
old people were dealt with in 1957.
National Health Service - Institutional Care,, etc.
Facilities for institutional care, home nursing, sick room
equipment and home helps are provided by the London County Council.
Hospital treatment, medical care, ophthalmic, dental and pharmaceutical
services are provided under statute.
The borough is situated in the area of two Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Boards. One Hospital Management Committee in the
borough utilizes the part-time service of a local medical practitioner
as a clinical assessor to decide the priority need for admission of
all patients submitted to that Hospital Group as being in need of
hospital treatment and classed as "chronic sick". This ensures the
early or immediate admission of patients where the need is urgent on