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The Committee's Liaison Officer is available three afternoons
each week at the United Services' Club. 108. Main Road. Sidcup.
when patients or their families can seek her help on the many
problems which arise during long illnesses.
That the public is sympathetic to the work of this Committee
is clear from the fact that over 6.000 people in the district contribute
to their funds by purchasing Christmas Seals which provide the
main source of the Committee's income.
Approximately 340 cases were assisted and 500 visited and
interviewed.
The Committee has been able to extend its activities to include
the provision of free holidays at the seaside for a number of families,
which enable tired wives and mothers to have a complete rest from
home and financial worries.
All statutory and voluntary bodies in the district give the
utmost co-operation to the Care Committee, and the closest liaison
exists with the Chest Clinic and with hospitals.
CHISLEHURST AND SIDCUP OLD PEOPLE'S WELFARE
COMMITTEE.
Abstract from Secretary's Annual Report:—
" The thirteen clubs, established over the past seven years in
the Chislehurst and Sidcup district, continue to bring friendship
and a wide variety of activity and interest to the thousand elderly
people who attend them weekly.
Holidays.
Approximately 120 members availed themselves of this scheme
and holidays were enjoyed in April and May at Bognor, Bexhill
and Eastbourne for 3 guineas a week.
Experimental Laundry Scheme.
This has been arranged for a trial period of six months to
handle soiled bed-linen of the aged and incontinent sick. Queen
Mary's Hospital has agreed to undertake this work and Chislehurst
and Sidcup Urban District Council has agreed to collect and
deliver. The patient will have to be inadmissable to a County
Home for Old People on the grounds of incontinence and the linen
must have been refused by an ordinary laundry. The patient will
normally be of pensionable age and a certificate must be obtained
from the doctor stating that such help is needed.
House for Conversion into Single-Room Flatlets.
Accommodation for Old People is a continual cause of concern
to the Central Committee. For some time, the Honorary Treasurer
has kept in a separate Post Office Savings Account, sums of money,
set aside for the purpose of making some contribution to the