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(b) The Home from Home Club, Royal Palace Hotel,
were granted. £42. 5s. lOd. towards their
general running expenses, and a further grant
equivalent to 4/- Per day (but not exceeding
£30) when the Club was transferred to a room
in the British Red Cross Society's Headquarters.
(c) The "Nook" Old People's Club were granted £5
for the purchase of games equipment.
(d) The West London Old Age Pensioners' Angling
Competition Committee were granted £5 towards
the cost of their annual competition.
(e) The Federation of Old Age Pensioners' Club
(North Kensington Branch, Golborne Hall,
Golborne Road) were granted £31. 43° Od. for
the purchase of 24 additional chairs.
Holidays
Since April, 1951 > the Council, in co-operation with the
Family Welfare Association, have operated a scheme for providing
holidays for old people.
During the present year a block booking of eighty places
was made on the ground and first floors of Lennox House Holiday Home,
Southsea, for the months of May and June; and twenty-five places
were booked with the Ramsgate and District Hotel and Boarding House
Association for the period May to June. In addition one extra place
was offered at Lennox House for the month of June and two extra
places for the month of October. The terms quoted for Lennox House
were £4. 10s. Od. per week, and for Ramsgate £4» 7s• 6d. per week.
Private coaches were hired to take the old people to and from these
homes and convenient assembly points in the borough were arranged.
As in other years, applications for holidays were
investigated by the Woman Health Officer, and were then passed to the
Family Welfare Association for the holiday arrangements. A sum of
five shillings per booking was paid to the Family Welfare Association
towards their administration expenses.
The following is a summary of the action taken during I96O:-
Total number of old people who applied 141
Considered unsuitable on medical grounds 4
Referred to L.C.C. for recuperative holidays 3
Cancellations after applying ... ...
Number on waiting list ... 13 20
Number of applications approved by the Chairman 121
Cancellations after approval 13
Number sent on holiday:-
To Lennox House, Southsea 83
To Ramsgate 2^ 108
Total 121