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Women's Voluntary Services.—The many and varied activities
of the Paddington Women's Voluntary Services are well known,
but space will not allow me to cover all of them in this report.
However, it is of special interest to record that there are five Darby
and Joan Clubs, as follows : Beauchamp Lodge, 2, Warwick Crescent;
Methodist Church Hall, Fernhead Road; St. James Church Hall,
Sussex Gardens; St. Johns Church Hall, Kilburn Lane; and
St. Saviours Church Hall, Warwick Avenue. One Handicraft Club
is held at 5, Praed Street, and during the year 2,611 house-bound
old people received meals on wheels in addition to 1,117 meals
served in the lunch club also at 5, Praed Street.
Chiropody.—Four sessions a week are held by the Paddington
Old People's Welfare Committee for the aged to attend at the
following clinic: Mrs. Baird, 3, Malvern Road, and, where necessary,
home visits are arranged.
Salvation Army.—The Salvation Army continued their good
work. They co-operated with twenty cases in need of immediate
help during the year and in each case went along with buckets and
brooms and cleaned the rooms and bathed the old people concerned.
At their lunch club, 5,824 dinners were cooked and served, and
1,248 delivered to the house-bound.
FOOD SUPERVISION.—
Unsound food.—Approximately 13½ (11½) tons of diseased or
unsound food were surrendered for destruction. Diseased meat is
incinerated, other condemned food being disposed of through the
normal refuse channels.
Bacteriological examinations.—The samples of milk submitted,
100(147) were all satisfactory. Samples of ice cream examined for
bacterial content were graded as follows:—
Grade 1—10(8): Grade 2—9(5): Grade 3—6(2):
Grade 4—8(1).
Registrations.—The following registrations were in force at the
end of the year under the Milk and Dairies Regulations or the Food
and Drugs Acts:—
Distributors of milk 124(117)
Dairies —(—)
Ice cream premises 198(206)
Food premises 75(75)
Licences.—Licences to sell designated milk in force at the end
of the year are given below:—
Dealers' principal licences
Pasteurised 90(84)
Sterilised 123(121)
Tuberculin tested 67(62)
Dealers' supplementary licences
Pasteurised 24(20)
Sterilised 28(22)
Tuberculin tested 24(20)
Food premises.—Following are details of the food premises in
the Borough at the end of the year.