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The statistical record of the year's work is detailed in the
Appendix on page 112 These are facts; the real spirit of the
service was displayed during the appalling weather conditions of
1962-1963, when few old people could venture out to the shops.
In several parts of the Borough even milk had to be collected;
coal was carried from depots, borrowed from neighbours, and
brought from home, and literally gallons of water were taken to
homes where supplies were frozen.
Attitudes of mind do not always change with external events;
Cicero's words of 2, 000 years ago might well have been written
about the Home Helps of 1962.