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SECTION 4.
GENERAL
MASSAGE AND SPECIAL TREATMENT ESTABLISHMENTS.
No new licences were granted during the year and the
number of registered establishments remained at 25.
Pour persons were again granted exemption from registration
by virtue of being members of the Chartered Society
of Physiotherapists.
NURSING HOMES.
No changes took place with regard to Nursing Homes
and there are eight registered homes which are inspected
annually by the Deputy Medical Officer of Health.
HEALTH EDUCATION,
Various leaflets published by the Central Council for
Health Education are distributed by means of leaflet display
trays in the Town Hall Vestibule and in the Public
Libraries.
The official journal of the Central Council, Better
Health, is distributed in the same way.
MEALS ON WHEELS SERVICE
The following report on the work of the Meals on
Wheels Service has been supplied by Mrs, E.V. Bruce, the
Divisional Director of the Ealing Area Division of the
British Red Cross Society -
This Service has been satisfactorily carried on during
1955, and hot meals have been supplied from Monday to
Friday inclusive to the aged and infirm people living
alone with no-one to care for them and to invalids and
the bedridden.
The same arrangement is made for the food to be pre
pared and cooked at the Ealing Red Cross Headquarters,
and there is a choice of meat or fish with two vegetables
and milk or steamed pudding. The meals are a great boon
and much appreciated by all who receive them.
The number of meals delivered during 1955 was 13,710,
an increase of 2,100 on the previous year. Although every
effort is made to meet all urgent requests there is always
a waiting list. Sometimes as many as 63 meals are delivered