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3. Hostel, Westcombe Park Road
To provide 20/21 places for mentally handicapped adults.
4. Day Nursery, Greenwich District Hospital
To provide places for 50 children.
5. Workshop for the Blind, Feathers Place
Extension and adaptations to provide accommodation for
those displaced as a result of the development of Greenwich
Central Area.
6. Cold Store, Shooters Hill Road
To provide increased storage facilities for frozen foods.
7. Garages, Tunnel Avenue
To provide covered accommodation for 21 vehicles.
Once again one must comment on the universal lack of trained
personnel in the community care field and that the secondment of
existing officers to various courses constitutes a handicap to which
the department must submit if any advancement in the quality of
the staff is to be achieved. In this respect we must acknowledge
our debt to the experienced rather than formally qualified, mainly
in the older groups, who must needs "hold the fort" whilst the
younger personnel are away gaining suitable qualifications.
Homes for Old People
Another purpose designed home for the care of old people—
Bryceson—was completed and received its first residents on 12th
October, 1970. This home has 60 beds on three floors and part
of the ground floor constitutes a special care unit similar to those
established at "Tegel" and "Elmgrove". Two further homes are
being planned and it is hoped that the building of the first will
commence in the latter half of 1971.
All our elderly people in Part III accommodation are housed
within the Borough boundaries.
Admissions
Close assessment of the needs of applicants for admission continued
to be exercised by the "Admissions Panel" led by the Deputy
Medical Officer of Health. The opening of "Bryceson", named
after the first Town Clerk of the old Metropolitan Borough of
Woolwich, eased the difficulties of the panel and removed some
of the pressure from the "Waiting List".
Some 465 admissions were made which fell into the following
categories:—
(i) New Admissions
Greenwich Homes (including short-stay cases) 187