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Enamelled panels showing details of hospitals with times for
attendance where advice or treatment on Venereal Diseases can be
obtained, were renewed as necessary in the Council's Public Conveniences
The Council also continued to co-operate in the Health publicity
programme organised by the London County Council Health Division 111
ELDERLY PERSONS
The Council has continued its very active concern and support in
connection with all schemes designed to assist in the care of the
ageing, towards their better health and to enable them to enjoy their
later years
Some of these Schemes have been established as part of the
Council' s general health services, and others have been encouraged and
developed by means of generous grants to voluntary organisations
responsible for them, amounting in all to £5„046 during the financial
year 1959/60. The work of these organisations has been co ordinated
as far as possible by the Pinsbury Old People's Welfare Committee
consisting of representatives of most of them and of the Health
Committee, and of which I have been privileged to be Honorary Secretary
It has operated therefore in very close association with the Services
provided by the Council and has received from it financial grants
towards its expenses In addition to co ordination it has also undertaken
responsibility for the services indicated with the initials
F 0 P W C in brackets below
a, Visitors, A nurse visitor has been 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
A social worker was appointed in 1957, and an assistant Social
worker in 1960 by the Finsbury Old People's Welfare Committee, wren
the main duties of aiding all the aged to obtain such benefits as
might be available from any source, and to give personal help comfort
and friendship wherever possible In this and other ways information
has become available as to most of the elderly in need, but occasionally
others are found whom had they been known earlier might have been
helped
(b) Meal Services„
(i) Club meals. Many of the elderly, particularly those who live
alone, are apt to take insufficient food, not only because of expense
but also because of the difficulty and trouble involved in preparing a
satisfactory meal for one. Dinner services, therefore, have been
instituted through voluntary associations throughout the Borough.
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