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Administration of welfare food service;
Welfare of Handicapped Persons;
Assessments in respect of certain health and welfare services.
Training Centres:
Scads Hill House, Chislehurst Road, Orpington.
The Labour Hall, Wellington Avenue. Sidcup.
Mondays to Fridays, 10 a.m.-3.30 p.m. during school terms.
A Home Teacher for the mentally subnormal is also available. Applications
for this service should be made to the County Medical Officer.
County Hall, Maidstone.
SERVICES RENDERED BY VOLUNTARY AGENCIES.
British Red Cross Society.
The local (Chislehurst and Sidcup) Divisions under their
Director, Mrs. P. Hibbs, and with Mrs. E. M. Watling as Divisional
Secretary, has Headquarters at Hornbrook House, High Street,
Chislehurst, and it is there that the Medical Loan Scheme and most
of the other services are located.
The Good Samaritan Club, for disabled men and women, meets
on the second and fourth Friday in each month from 2.30-4.30
p.m. Handicraft classes for the disabled take place from 10 a.m.12
noon on Tuesday, and there is a Foot Clinic for old age pensioners
on Thursday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Additionally, there is a Handicraft Class for disabled at the
Clinic, Mickleham Road, St. Paul's Cray, on Wednesday 10 a.m.12
noon.
Escorts are arranged from Hospitals to Convalescent Homes,
welfare visits are paid to hospital patients and "Ministry of
Pension Widows" are visited in their own homes. Lectures in First
Aid, Nursing and Mothercraft, are arranged for members of the
Society.
The St. John Ambulance Brigade.
The 97th Sidcup Nursing Division functions within the Urban
District under the Divisional Superintendent, Mrs. O. Barton, and
the Divisional Secretary is Miss H. R. Haley.
Personnel with First Aid qualifications, attend the local cinema
and many other public gatherings, including meetings and outings
of The Old Age Pensioners Association and Rest-A-While Club.
First Aid is rendered in case of road accidents, by members stationed
at the Road Hut on the Sidcup By-Pass, in the Longlands area,
during the summer months.
The Division helps in the wards at Queen Mary's Hospital and
Sidcup Cottage Hospital, when required. It also assists the District