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Tunnel
Avenue
Plumstead
Lionel
Road
Total
Number bathed at home 3,150 5,920 2,592 11,662*
Number bathed at centre 3,084 1,973 1,174 6,231 "f
Pedicure 449 701 374 1,524
Hair-washing 317 300 352 969
* Males 3,759 Females 7,903
† Males 2,423 Females 3,808
Miscellaneous—Treatment of scabies and the cleansing of
verminous persons are also duties falling to the staff of the bathing
centres.
Incontinent Laundry Service
This service has been established to:—
(i) relieve the pressure on families who are managing
under extreme difficulties with seriously ill patients;
(ii) assist many old persons who, although not seriously
ill, have a stress incontinence or kidney condition.
Although dealing mainly with laundry from the homes of the
elderly, this service is extended to all like cases of all ages at home
or in residential care. Collections are usually daily but they can
vary from twice to three times per week. There is no doubt but that
this service is frequently the means whereby elderly persons are
enabled to pass their remaining days among their own surroundings
when otherwise they would be hospital patients.
Ancillary to this service is the loan of mackintoshes and a limited
number of sheets and draw sheets are also available for urgent
needs. Both this and the Bathing Service are worked in closest
co-operation with the District Nurses.
There are two laundry centres, one at the Tunnel Avenue Centre
and the other at the White Hart Road Centre. How effective and
valuable this service is proving to be is shown by the following
statistics which reveal that the demand remains unabated.
Tunnel White Hart
Articles Laundered Avenue Road
For Incontinence 90,278 92,225
Other Items 25,521 6,574
Totals 115,799 98,799
Home Cleansing Service
Not infrequently the rooms of elderly people deteriorate into a
muddled dirty state and the task of cleaning up becomes too