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throughout the service there is a personal touch in every effort.
For the unrecorded acts of kindness are not official duties but
genuine expressions of compassion.
The Helpers who pushed an elderly athritic wife from South
Norwood to Queens Hospital and back in a wheel chair in order
that she should see her husband for the last time did so, not
out of a sense of duty, but because it was in their opinion the
natural thing to do.
A period of'administration spanning fifteen years came to an
end this year with the retirement of Mrs. Rudd, the Senior
Assistant Home Help Supervisor. At the same time the section
suffered another loss when Mrs. Wake resigned after nearly seven
years' service. Their knowledge and experience will be sadly
missed, but change although often uncomfortable, can bring its
own compensations with the infusion of new ideas and new
approaches to old difficulties.
Set out in Appendix page 111 are details of the work carried
out.