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British Red Cross Society—Mobile Meals Service.
The Westminster Division of the British Red Cross Society has
continued this service which it established in the City in 1945 for the
delivery to their homes of hot mid-day meals to aged people who are
themselves unable to prepare meals of this sort.
The service is operated with two vans provided by the City Council
and loaned to the Society. The City Council also makes a grant to
the Society of 75 per cent, of the running costs of the vans.
The meals are purchased from a London County Council civic
restaurant where they are placed in individual containers. By this
method a variety of meals are obtained to suit different tastes. The
containers are kept hot in a heated chamber in the vans until delivered
at the homes of the old people.
The cost of the meal is 1s. 6d., the old people are charged l0d. the
London County Council bearing the difference of 8d. per meal. Some 8,238
meals were delivered by this service during the year. This was
accomplished by the British Red Cross Society with the service of one
paid driver-organiser and a band of enthusiastic voluntary workers.
International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation.
Arrangements continued during the year for the authentication by
the Medical Officer of Health of International Certificates of Vaccination
and Inoculation completed by medical practitioners in Westminster.
These certificates are required by passengers proceeding abroad from
this country, and the purpose of the authentication is to provide proof
to those health authorities abroad who desire it that the signature of
the person issuing the certificate is that of a registered medical practitioner.
Some 3,388 certificates were authenticated during the year.
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933—Slaughterman's Licences.
The Council during the year granted Slaughterman's licences to
fifteen men who had been accepted by the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to act as their inspectors in different
parts of the country.
These licences are required to be held by the pupils while undergoing
training in humane slaughtering as inspectors of the R.S.P.C.A.
Paddington Group Hospital Management Committee.
The Council at the invitation of the Paddington Group Hospital
Management Committee appointed Councillor Havinden to serve on
House Committee No. 1.