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Borough Council, we have been enabled to purchase a new Minibus
and provision has also been made to cover the cost of equipping,
staffing and maintaining this vehicle. As a result we have been
enabled, not only to maintain, but also to extend, the services
offered to our elderly people. Our thanks are also due to the Town
Clerk, the Medical Officer of Health, the Borough Treasurer and
their staffs for the willing assistance they have afforded us during
the past year.
Mention must also be made of our late Honorary Secretary,
Mrs. E. M. Wigley, whose life was devoted to the welfare of old
people. As Divisional Director of the local British Red Cross
Society, her duties were many and varied and her cheerful outlook
and unflagging work on behalf of this Association will be greatly
missed.
We, the Executive Committee, are inspired by the willing cooperation
of all the voluntary helpers and friends and, not least, by
the appreciation shown by the old people themselves. It is a privilege
to engage in this work and our earnest endeavour is to extend its
scope and influence to every old person within the Metropolitan
Borough of Greenwich."
Executive Committee, 1959/60.—The Committee for the past
year has been as follows :—
Council Representatives:
Councillor Mrs. M. L. Wentworth (Chairman)
Councillor Mrs. M. L. Bennett
Councillor Mrs. K. P. Bullard
Councillor Lady D. Hume, J.P.
Councillor H. W. H. Icough
Councillor H. Ingle
Councillor C. Shaw
Elected Representatives:
Miss E. Bertrand (Albany Institute)
Mrs. E. Cummings (Townswomen's Guild)
Mrs. M. Gardener (Women's Voluntary Services)
Mrs. N. C. Lewis (Vice-Chairman) (Inner Wheel Club of
Greenwich)
Mrs. F. Stapley (British Legion, Women's Section)
Mrs. E. M. Wigley (British Red Cross Society)
Mrs. F. A. Williamson (Family Welfare Association)
Burial or Cremation of the Dead.—Under Section 50 of
the National Assistance Act, 1948, the Council is required to arrange
for the burial or cremation of any person who has died or has been