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DAY CARE SERVICE
The day care service continued to function satisfactorily. This service which is additional
to the normal home help service, is given to selected aged persons by neighbours or persons
living in the immediate vicinity, and is intended to cater for those persons chronically ill or
bedridden and living alone who require visiting or attention several times a day. The service is
however, limited to the availability of neighbours willing to undertake this paid work.
ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY MACHINE
During the year the Council undertook the work,and bore the cost,of carrying out the
necessary adaptations including plumbing, electricity and water supplies to a dwelling in the
Borough where a renal dialysis machine was being installed for a 22 year old patient by the
London Hospital. The cost of adaptation was £618.
HOME BATHING
Aged persons who are bedfast or homebound are given bed baths and, where the person is
sufficiently agile, complete baths in their own homes by the Council's bathing attendants.
This service was again expanded during the year by the engagement of 4 additional bathing
attendants to relieve the district nurses of as much non-nursing duty as possible. (Statistics on
page 96 )
BURIALS
Section 50 of the National Assistance Act 1947 places a duty on the Council to arrange for
the burial of any person found dead within the borough where no private arrangements have been made.
Burials undertaken during the year numbered 39. (Statistics on page 104)
REMOVAL OF PERSONS IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION
The Council is empowered by Section 47 of the National Assistance Act 1948, as amended by
the National Assistance (Amendment) Act 1951, to make application to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction
for an Order for the removal to hospital or institution of any aged, infirm or physically
incapacitated person living in insanitary conditions, and who is in need of care and attention,
It was found necessary this year to apply for Removal Orders under this enactment in respect
of 12 persons, who were removed to hospital.
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