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Work Centre
The numbers attending the Work Centre fell to 41 at the end
of the year, largely owing to increasing infirmity and difficulties
in travelling.
There are 38 women and 3 men. Work for the women is easier
to find but the employment of men has been more difficult especially
as the use of a power tool has had to be discontinued due to the
lability of the electricity circuits to take the load safely.
Recently however a contract for box making which can be done by
men as well as women has been obtained.
The women still continue to do button carding and darning
and during the year the packing of foam cistern floats and curtain
taking has been carried out. Articles have also been made for
direct sale and a sale of work was held on the 5th, December in
Edition to a stall at the Autumn Pair, A handicraft instructor
from the London County Council attends the Centre once a week.
The subsidiary centre at Chester Way moved to the Duke of
Clarence Club in Orsett Street on 30th November where 8 ladies
attend in the morning only.
The lease of the premises at 58 Lansdowne Way will expire
next year but plans are well ahead for the building of a new
centre,
Office
The Office of the Lambeth Old People's Welfare Association
is situated in Room 1 at the Town Hal], Brixton Hill. S.W.2.
(Telephone Brixton 7755. Extension 18). The Organisation Secretary
of the Association is Mrs. I.K. Prampton and the office hours are
from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays to Fridays and 10 a.m. to 12noon
on Saturdays.
Hospitals
Lambeth is within the catchment of two hospital groups, the
Lambeth and Camberwell Groups. These, in turn are administered by
two different Regional Hospital Boards, theSouth West Metropolitan
and south East Metropolitan respectively. The areas served by the
two hospital groups extend beyond the Borough boundaries. The
Lambeth Group has premises outside the Borough whilst the Camberwell
Group has none within it.