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This coal is stored at the Health Centre and the service was used
on numerous occasions during the year to provide coal to the aged in
an emergency.
(x) Barber Service:
The Committee during the year continued to provide a Barber Service
(Haircutting and Shaving) for elderly men who are housebound or
bedridden and for whom it is not possible to make alternative arrangements.
(xi) Social Worker:
The Committee were enabled by reason of financial assistance
received from a local charity to employ a full time Social Worker
whose duties in brief are to aid the aged and sick poor to obtain such
benefits as may be available from any source, whether voluntary or
statutory; in the course of such work to give personal help, comfort
and friendship as may be possible. One of the main reasons for the
appointment was the fact that the Committee knew of the existence in
the borough of many aged persons whom it had not been possible to contact
personally, but who were often, due to their independent outlook,
in the greatest need. It is this type of case the Committee now hope
to ferret out and ascertain their needs.
It should be noted that as well as the services outlined above
operated by or in close relation to the Council, the following services
provided by the London County Council are available:
1. Domestic Help Service.
2. A Chiropody Clinic in the Health Centre.
Further, a Physiotherapy Clinic provided by the Hospital Management
Committee is available in the Health Centre.
I should once again like to express my thanks and appreciation
of the medical services rendered to the aged persons of Finsbury by
the general practitioners in the district and their close co-operation
with me and officers of my department, and to Dr. Stern, the Medical
Superintendent of St. Matthew's Hospital, and her staff.