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Holiday Home.—The following guests were accommodated at
"Kincardine". Guests stay for a fortnight during January,
February, March and November and for a week during the remainder
of the year.
No. of applications received 885
No. of Guests accommodated 555
Applicants refusing holiday offered:—
Date offered unacceptable 49
Private reasons 51
Illness 76
Death of applicant, friend or relative 25
Removed from borough subsequent to
offer 10
Private holiday taken 4
Obtained employment 6
Applicants not offered a holiday:—
Removed from borough 5
Died 20
Single rooms not available 30
Special date not available 21
Priority not reached 39
Of the 555 guests accommodated, 150 were having their first
holiday at the Home. At Christmas a further sixteen guests were
selected from sixty-seven applicants and spent at a week at the Home.
In addition to the services provided by the Paddington Borough
Council for the elderly, a number of voluntary organisations provide
the following services which enable the elderly person to remain at
home:—
Meals.—In Paddington the provision of hot meals at the home
of the elderly devolves mainly on the Women's Voluntary Services,
who deliver meals twice a week to any one person, the service being
restricted to the housebound only. The Salvation Army also supply
meals twice a week at their Goodwill Centre.
The Invalid Meals Service, organised by the London County
Council, has, of course, a wider scope than meals for the elderly
and is used for appropriate cases.
Chiropody.—In Paddington this service is provided both by the
Paddington Old People's Welfare Committee and by the London
County Council.
The Paddington Old People's Welfare Committee scheme
provides for the following :—
(a) Some 1,500 treatments per year at the surgery of a local
chiropodist.
(b) The equivalent of two sessions per week at a clinic at
Leonora House.
(c) Some 750 treatments at the homes of the housebound.
The London County Council hold a foot clinic at the Welfare
Centre, 283a Harrow Road, on seven occasions each week. These
clinics are not exclusively for the elderly.
Recreational Centres.—A. number of clubs for the elderly are
organised by the Women's Voluntary Services, the Salvation Army