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(v) Nurse/Visitor:
A Nurse/Visitor is employed whose duties involve the
regular visiting of aged persons, particularly those living
alone, who are likely to be in need of care and attention.
Liaison with voluntary organisations-and ascertaining
detailed information from applicants for one or more of the
Council's services for the aged.
(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 existing 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 £1,460 in the
financial year 1959/1960.
There were no compulsory removals to suitable premises
during 1959 of persons in need of care and attention under
Section 47 of the National Assistance Act, 1958. In one
case, an elderly woman of age 84 years, a warrant was
obtained but fortunately at the last moment she agreed to
enter a hospital voluntarily.
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.