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SECTION 4
GENERAL
MASSAGE AND SPECIAL TREATMENT ESTABLISHMENTS.
No new licences were issued during the year and the
number of establishments at the end of the years 26.
The same four exemptions were granted to members of
the Chartered Society of Physio-therapists.
NURSING HOMES.
No new nursing homes were registered and the existing
8 were inspected as usual.
HEALTH EDUCATION.
Health Education leaflets and Better Health there distributed
through the same channels as in past years.
MEALS ON WHEELS.
This service is now provided by the Britished Cross
Society in Ealing and the Womens Voluntary service in
Greenford and Northolt.
Mrs. E. V. Bruce of the British Red Cross Society
reports that this service has continued its usefulness
during 1957 and has supplied hot meals to the aged and
sick, living alone with no one to care for the and to
invalids and the bed-ridden. The food is cod at the
Headquarters of the British Red Cross Society and there
is a choice of meat or fish with two vegetable and milk
or steamed pudding. The meals are served in individual
containers and are kept hot in the ovens in the an which
are heated by charcoal. 13,727 meals were devered in
1957. Every effort is made to meet all request and there
is generally a waiting list of from eight to templicants
which is gradually absorbed. The usual Christs Dinners
of roast turkey with vegetables and Christre Pudding
were supplied to those on the list on the 23-and 24th
December. Many letters of appreciation for the Meals on
Wheels Service have been received during the yr.
Miss E. Tippetts of the Womens Volunta Service
reports that since May l960 meals have boon served the
present number being 45 daily. Until November the meals
were cooked in the kitchen of Stanhope Day Nuery but