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(vi) Bathing and Cleansing Service.
Baths are provided free of charge at the Health Centre to those
aged persons who , on account of their condition, cannot use the exist
ing Public Baths. A nurse is in attendance to render assistance, if
this should be necessary.
Occasional cleansing services were provided for those aged persons
where their accommodation has been allowed to become so dirty and
unwholesome that it had become beyond their capabilities to get it
clean again, although possibly able with or without the aid of a
domestic help to keep it at least for a time sanitary once it had been
cleansed.
The Council continued to encourage all voluntary organisations in
the borough to extend the services available to the aged for meals and
recreation. Grants which were made on the basis of reports made to
the Council on the work of each organisation amounted in all to £1,890
in the financial year 1957/58.
There were no compulsory removals to suitable premises during
1957 of persons in need of care and attention under Section 47 of the
National Assistance Act, 1948.
Finsbury Old People s Welfare Committee
The work of the voluntary organisations is co-ordinated as far as
possible by the Finsbury Old People's Welfare Committee which consists
of representatives of most of the bodies who are concerned with the
elderly and of which I am privileged to be Hon. Secretary. It
operates, therefore, in close association with the services provided
by the Council and has received from the latter financial grants each
year.
Apart from the co-ordination of other voluntary bodies it has
under its aegis inaugurated the following services
(i) Domiciliary Chiropody Service
This service is provided free of charge for those aged persons
are unable by reason of senility, chronic sickness etc. to attend
personally the Foot Clinic at the Health Centre and has proved of
great benefit to the elderly.
334 visits were paid during 1957 The ages of the persons
visited ranged from 63 to 95 years.