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or Lewisham, sight-seeing tours, excursions to country and coast,
etc. Further variations were provided by television, radio, cinema
and live entertainment. It would seem that "Bingo" sessions are
popular in most homes and parties form an occasional treat.
In addition to handicraft instruction provided at all homes,
classes in "movement and music" were started in three of the
homes and they appear to be meeting with success. Active participation
was confined to a modest proportion of the old people, but
the onlookers seemed also to derive a great deal of pleasure from
the innovation.
Transfer of Residents
Requests continue to be received for residents to be moved from
one Home to another generally to facilitate visiting by their friends
and relatives.
Staff
Due perhaps to factory closures within the Borough, little difficulty
was found in recruiting subordinate staff for our homes but
the reciprocating movement of senior supervisory staff from one
authority to another continued with its accompanying anxieties.

Voluntary Homes
Visits to Greenwich residents maintained in the following
voluntary homes continue to be made by Officers of the department.