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for example, by sessions for the handicapped, but the premises are of
course not purpose-built, and space is a limiting factor. The committee
also intend to let the premises to outside organisations in the
evenings, or at weekends, when they are not required for old people's
welfare, and the terms and conditions of letting were under active
consideration at the end of the year.
There is no doubt that this pioneering effort in the interests of old
people has got off to a successful start. The public health committee
controls the premises, and a central voluntary committee, The Saville
Club executive committee, was set up to receive grant from the Council,
to make grants to the various sections, and generally to guide and
coordinate (as a central body) the activities carried out at the premises
for old people. The Council made an initial grant of £50 to the Club,
and a maintenance grant of £65 for the remainder of the financial year.
The voluntary committee consists of three members of the Public
Health Committee (including the chairman, ex officio), a representative
of LOPWA, a representative of the WVS, one representative from each
of the individual clubs and sections using the premises, together with
the medical officer of health, and the warden who acts as secretary.
Appointments are for one year and cooption is permissible up to onethird
of the basic members.
Visiting of old people
Three nurses (officially called Women Health Officers) are concerned
with visiting old people and houses where there has been infectious
disease. Their work for old people is tabulated as follows :—

Facilities for the aged, generally
The King Edward Hospital Fund committee set up to review the
services for old people in this borough with a view to ascertaining
whether any of such services should be strengthened or whether additional
services were required, continued to meet during the year.
Lewisham was chosen for two main reasons: first because although the
services were in some respects (for example, a geriatric unit) less
than in many other boroughs it was maintained by the hospital and
other authorities that the old people were not prejudiced thereby; and
secondly that Lewisham could be regarded as a fairly typical suburban
area and that if anything was required here it might well be required
elsewhere.