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discussed with a view to ensuring that hospital, local authority and general practitioner
services co-operated as fully as possible towards postponing infirmity and ill health in old
people and, wherever possible, they are given any necessary treatment and care in their
own homes.
Invalid meals for London
The Council makes a grant-in-aid to Invalid Meals for London, a voluntary body providing
meals for invalids and sick persons. Meals are supplied, on the production of a
medical certificate, to sick persons including the aged, expectant and nursing mothers,
persons discharged from or awaiting admission to hospital, cripples and invalids, e.g.,
diabetics, requiring special diets. Meals are delivered by motor van to the homes of patients
unable to attend the dining rooms attached to five centres.
1955/6
1956/7
1957/8
1958/9
1959/60
£
£
£
£
£
Grant-in-aid 8,000 11,500 11,500 17,500 18,664
Meals served 182,399 187,578 174,011 167,134 172,637
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