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During the year the following examinations were carried out :
Administrative, Technical and Clerical Staff 41
Sickness Pay Scheme and Superannuation Scheme
(Servants) 109
Gunnersbury Park Joint Committee Employees 12
Total 162
Nine persons were rejected who were suffering from the
following conditions, or a combination of them :
Heart Disease 1
Sinusitis 1
Hernia 2
Asthma 1
Varicose Veins 1
High Blood Pressure 2
Bronchitis 1
HOLIDAYS FOR OLD PEOPLE.
The Old People's Welfare Committee sent 268 old people for
one week's holiday at Eastbourne or Bexhill, each person paying
1 guinea inclusive. Five hundred and fourteen applications were
received and each case was thoroughly investigated before a final
selection was made.
A grant was made by the Ealing Borough Council to the
Ealing Council of Social Services of £750.
MEALS ON WHEELS SERVICE.
The Ealing area of the British Red Cross Society have for
some years organised a " Meals on Wheels " service by which the
delivery of a hot meal is made from a mobile van to elderly and
invalid persons at a normal charge of Is. per meal. This service
is greatly appneciated throughout the Borough and provides some
10,000 meals a year. Less than 7% are supplied under the heading
of necessitous cases and without charge. The meals are prepared
and cooked at the British Red Cross Society's Ealing headquarters
and voluntary helpers accompany the van and serve the meals.
These visits are often useful in other ways, since this link through
the British Red Cross Society with many of these old and invalid
persons enables assistance of other kinds to be given where found
to be necessary.
It has been the practice of the Ealing Borough Council to
make a grant and this amounted to £720 in respect of the year
commencing 1st April, 1953.