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full time salaried Organiser be engaged with a part time
Supervisor for each Centre.
The proposed Northolt Work Centre has not yet come
into being, but it is hoped that this will be the case in
1962, so that this part of the Borough can have the
advantage of this service,
EALING DAY TREATMENT CENTRE.
For the past several years in my Annual Report I have
recorded the progress of the efforts to inaugurate the
Day Treatment Centre. I am now glad to record that the
Centre opened in June and by the end of the year had
established itself as a valuable component of the Council's
service for old people.
The Centre is run by the Ealing Day Treatment Centre
Association, with Alderman Mrs. L, Stowell as its Chairman.
The Committee consists of six members of the Ealing
Borough Council, three representatives of the West Middle
sex Division of the British Medical Association and one
representative from each of three voluntary organisations
in the Borough, namely, the British Red Cross, St. John
Ambulance Brigade and the Women's Voluntary Service. The
Mayor of Ealing agreed to become President.
The scheme has been made financially possible by
contributions to the Association from various sources.
The Council have made a grant, Messrs. Taylor Woodrow Ltd.
have provided and erected a very suitable building rent
free for five years, and Honeywell Brown Controls have
provided the necessary electrical equipment. Glaxo Laboratories
Limited have made a generous grant towards the
equipping of the Centre, and the British Bath Company
have supplied on loan a bath especially designed for use
by old people.
The site of the Centre is in Green Lane, Hanwell, W. 7.
The building caters for 20 people and has a fully equipped
surgery for use by visiting General Practitioners, a
Treatment Room, well supplied with physiotherapy equipment,
and a Day Room. The bathroom has a specially designed
bath incorporating aids for the crippled and infirm.
The Centre has a full time staff of three, consisting
of a Sister, an Assistant Nurse and a clerk. The consultants
and medical auxiliaries are either on a voluntary
or sessional basis. The patients are brought to the Centre
at approximately 9 a.m. daily Monday to Friday inclusive,
and taken home at about 4 p.m.