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The Mayor, Alderman Gordon S. Passmore, performed the
opening ceremony at our annual Sale of Work in November and
he and his wife and children spent an hour talking to stallholders
and making purchases. Despite great difficulties the Sale was a
financial success and the total net proceeds amounted to £226.
At Christmas we again gave grants to patients at home and
in hospital. Many letters of thanks were received which also
expressed appreciation of being remembered. The Wandsworth
Rotary Club again distributed Christmas parcels to six of our
needy families and we thank them for their generosity.
I hope everyone will agree that 1970 was a successful year
financially and that no genuine request for help was refused.
The Committee remained unchanged from the previous year
and I do thank them all for their continued support. We must
have our differences of opinion at times but I always consider it a
happy Committee with only one aim—to help the patient in the
most suitable way. My thanks too to my Vice-Chairman. Honorary
Treasurer, Social Workers and Secretary and to those whom we
rarely see but whose assistance is invaluable—the Women's Royal
Voluntary Service, the officers of the Department of Health and
Social Security and the Employment Exchanges.
May we continue our work for as long as we have the means
to do so as I am sure there will always be the need.
DEODORA CASSELS.
Chairman.
MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF STAFF
The medical examination of existing and prospective staff is
undertaken in the Health Department on behalf of all departments
of the Council. Before appointment, every prospective
new entrant to the service is requested to complete a medical
questionnaire for scrutiny by a medical officer and about 900
questionnaires were scrutinised in the year. About 20 per cent of
prospective entrants are subsequently called for a physical examination,
either because of their age, the nature of the employment
they are taking, or because of their medical history. In addition
to its work in relation to new entrants to the service, the Health
Department carried out 80 special medical examinations of existing
staff at the request of the Council's Establishment Officer,
arising from extended sick leave or other reasons related to their
employment with the Council.