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Hampstead 1963

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]

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Services provided for Aged Persons.
Laundry. For incontinent persons only. Applications to the
Medical Officer of Health, 98a Avenue Road, N.W.3. HAM 7171.
Meals. Delivered Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday by the
British Red Cross Society and Women's Voluntary Services.
Application to Hampstead Old People's Welfare Association for
N.W.6 area and British Red Cross Society for N.W.3.
Dinner Clubs. These are held at -
Maccabi Clubx 73 Compayne Gardens, N.W.6. Monday; and Thursday,
(Now Bamfield, upper Park Road N.W.3)
St. Stephen's Church Hall, Pond Street, N.W.3 on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 12 noon.
Health Institute, 107 Kingsgate Road, N.W.6 on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday at 12 noon.
B*nai B*rith, 51 Belsize Square, N.W.3. Tuesday and Wednesday.
Library. Books provided by the Borough Council are delivered
fortnightly to homebound old people. A member of the library staff
accompanies the van.
Holidays. Arranged by the Hampstead Old People*s Welfare Association
or The Hampstead Council of Social Service.
Chiropody Service. Weekly sessions are held in N.W.6 and N.W.3.
The Rotary Club of Hampstead provide transport to the clinic for
those too frail to travel. Patients who are unable to attend the
clinic even by car, are visited and treated in their own homes.
Appointments for treatment are made on application to the
Hampstead Old People's Welfare Association.
Baths. Old Age Pensioners are allowed to use the slipper baths at
the Central Baths, Finchley Road and the Branch Baths at Flask
Walk and Palmerston Road, free of charge at any time.
Homes. Information obtainable from the Medical Officer of Health,
98a Avenue Road, N.W.3, the Hampstead Old People*s Welfare
Association, 107 Kingsgate Road, N.W.6 or the Old People's Homes
Committee, 296 Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W.1. VIC 9977.
Workshops for the Elderly. 107 Kingsgate Road, N.W.6. Organised
by the Hampstead Old People's Welfare Association.