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This left a sum of money available for new clubs which might qualify
for grant. At the end of the calendar year one further application was
under consideration.
It is hoped that such old people's organisations as can will not only
provide the usual afternoon's recreation with a little tea, but will also
make arrangements to provide lunch either on the day the club meets
or another day. To this end the Lewisham Old People's Welfare
Association is prepared to cooperate by conveying the meals in bulk
from the central kitchen, where they are obtained, to the luncheon club.
The health department during the year continued to take a detailed
interest in the work for old people generally and remained in the closest
touch with the Lewisham Old People's Welfare Association (LOPWA),
which Association has offices in the department. LOPWA is, so far as
the borough council's work for old people's welfare is concerned, the
main body in the area and has affiliated to it the various other bodies to
which the Council makes grant. LOPWA is reponsible for the
Meals-on-Wheels service to housebound old people.
The laundry service carried out by the borough council for the
small number of old people living at home whose infirmity is such as to
make them incontinent of urine or faeces was continued and expanded
during the year, over 37,000 articles being cleansed. The service was
highly appreciated; it can only be used, however, where section 122 of
the Public Health (London) Act applies.
Measurement of atmospheric pollution
The three deposit stations and the three smoke measurement
stations continued in use throughout the year, though in the next
table a gap of four months is shown for the west division deposit station
and a gap of one month in the south division deposit station, because
of results which were found to be unreliable due to local contamination.
FOREST HILL
, „ ha. 1955 Feb. March April Nay June July August Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
U IB 15 1 g 15 22 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 1 9 26 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 21 28 5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 30 6 13 20 2 7 4 11 18 25 1 8 15 22 29 6 13 20 21
The chart shows for the Forest Hill station the amount of smoke
(continuous line) throughout the year and (dotted line) the minimum
temperature. It will be obvious that, in general terms, one is almost
the reciprocal of the other.