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During the year, the Meadowside Home in Holden Road, Finchley, N.12, was closed and later
demolished. The 22 female residents were accommodated elsewhere, the staff moved to other
premises and early in 1968 work will start on a new residential home for 50 residents.
Improvements to the kitchen, dining hall, staff accommodation and the installation of a
passenger lift, were completed at Woodhill House, and a new dining room extension, additional
toilets and laundry facilities and an oil-fired boiler installation were provided at The Leys.

During the year, 130 persons were admitted to the Council Homes and 95 to voluntary
organisation homes.
In providing a residential service, it is important to give help to elderly or other persons
for short periods, e.g., at times of crisis or for holidays, and 17 persons were so accommodated.
The waiting list for admission to residential homes at the close of the year consisted of 31
men and 132 women. Until the new Meadowside home is open in the Autumn of 1969, no additional
beds for.elderly persons will be available and names are therefore added to the waiting
list only if there is an acute need. It is of interest to record that of the 130 persons admitted to
the Council's homes during the past year, 53 were of an emergency nature and were persons
whose names were not included on the waiting list.
It is of particular significance that at the end of the year there were 27 voluntary organisation
homes and 25 private homes for elderly or disabled persons registered with the Council;
during the year, 7 were registered and 6 registrations were cancelled. Registration involves
inspection visits to the premises to be carried out not less frequently than twice a year to
ensure that the residents are being well cared for and the staff are suitable to undertake this
work.
A total number of 954 persons were accommodated, 744 in voluntary homes and 210 in
private homes.
Catering
For some time, difficulty was experienced in obtaining cooks to work in the residential
homes and even where cooks were employed, some support by other staff was found to be inevitable
having regard to the application of the 40-hour week. In 2 homes, the position was
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