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"During the year ended 31st December, 1964 the City of London Old People's Welfare Association
has continued to promote and assist the general good of all old people resident in the
City of London, and those of pensionable age for the housing of whom the Corporation has accepted
responsibility.
The services provided through the City of London Old People's Welfare Association have
included; Chiropody; Convalescent Holidays;Extra Domestic Assistance or Home Help; the supply
on loan of medical equipment not obtainable through Statutory sources Supply of Television
and Wireless Sets and Licences; Outings and Entertainments; Christmas Food Parcels: and a
Personal Visiting Service. I set out a summary of the Service and the number of persons for whom
they have been provided in 1964:
Within the
Square Mile
Corporation
Estates
Convalescent Holidays
Chiropody Treatment
60 persons p.a.
240 persons p.a. Gravel
Lane Clinic
133 persons p.a.
970 persons p.a. Clinics at Dron
House, Isleden House, Golden
Lane, Ferndale Road Almshouses,
Harman Close.
Home Helps 41 persons per week 24 persons per week.
Meals 5,541 meals p.a.
Handicrafts, 90 persons attending 160 persons attending classes
Singing and Dancing etc. classes each week. each week.
Laundry 72 Laundry collections
per annum.
Television and Wireless 400 sets (Over a three-year
period).
Medical Equipment on 50 persons supplied with either
loan wheelchair, commode, bedrest,
etc.
Outings 60 participants p.a. 240 participants p.a.
Clothing (including 24 persons p.a. 16 persons p.a.
Bedlinen).
Food Parcels 240 recipients p.a. 1,560 recipients per annum.
Hairdressing (Domiciliary 10 persons per month,
visits).
The provision of the foregoing Services has only been made possible by the generosity of
the Corporation and by contributions and donations received from individuals and Organisations.
In addition to the services provided (as listed) regular visits were made, and no effort was spared
to ease the burden of the old people living in, or connected with, the City of London. The City
of London Old People's Welfare Association is indeed indebted to those who by their efforts
in so many ways have helped to make the old folk feel that life continues to hold much of interest
for them and to feel that they are an essential part of the community."
MASS RADIOGRAPHY
The close liaison between the staffs of the Mass Miniature Radiography Unit and the Corporation
has continued and I am grateful to Dr. W.D.R. Thompson, Medical Director of the Unit for the
following report:—
"Introduction
For the greater part of the year under review the Unit operated at the Mass Radiography
Centre, 20, Golden Lane, E.C.1, while for the remaining period it visited firms, etc. within its
zone. Of particular interest was the visit to the General Post Office at Mount Pleasant when the
Unit organised an all night session besides the normal morning and afternoon sessions. The
response on this occasion was over double the attendance of previous occasions and was more
than 82 per cent of the total staff. The Controller was highly appreciative of the service rendered
by the Unit.
The Unit also paid its biennial visit to the Finsbury Health Centre when it concentrated
upon firms in the Borough and the Ludgate Circus area of the City of London. Over fourteen
hundred firms were circulated out of which about four hundred participated in the Survey. Five
cases with a significant tuberculous lesion and one carcinoma of the bronchus were discovered.
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