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Northolt 12
Greenford 15
Ealing, N.W.10 1
When the patients leave the Centre after their course of treatment every effort is
made to supply them with services which will help to support them at home. These
include the provision of meals under the Meals on Wheels scheme, the services of a
Home Help if necessary and contact with various social clubs. The problem of followup
visiting remains a difficult one. Unfortunately, the health visiting staff of the area
is insufficient to cope with this problem and efforts have been made to find a suitable
number of voluntary visitors. Some progress has been made in this direction. The
members of the Committee of the Ealing Day Treatment Centre Association for
1963 were:—
Councillor R. R. Clay (Chairman)
Councillor J. T. Bartlett (Vice-Chairman)
Alderman Mrs. D. Gundry
Councillor J. F. Barlow
Councillor E. R. Bennett
Councillor Mrs. D. I. Williams
Dr. Barbara Bailey
Dr. C. A. Osborn
Dr. F. H. Scoones
Mrs. D. M. Collins—British Red Cross Scoiety
Mr. L. G. Love—St. John Ambulance Brigade
Miss E. Tippetts—Women's Voluntary Service
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948
Section 47
This section provides powers for the compulsory removal to hospital or other place
of persons who:—
(ia) are suffering from grave chronic disease or, being aged, infirm or physically
incapacitated are living in insanitary conditions, and
(b) are unable to devote to themselves, and are not receiving from other persons,
proper care and attention.
Once again it was not necessary to take action under this section during the past
year. Many old people were visited following reports received from General Practitioners,
Home Helps, Health Visitors, etc. Where an old person is unwilling to enter a
hospital or home voluntarily it has often been found possible to give sufficient support
through the good offices of the Home Help Section, the Meals-on-Wheels service and
the Home Nursing service. This enables the person's home to be brought up to a
reasonably satisfactory state of hygiene and comfort.
Many of the old people visited would undoubtedly receive more adequate care in an
Old Person's Home, but one is naturally reluctant to use compulsory powers of removal
in any but extreme cases. A great deal however can be done by persuasion and explanation.
DAY CLUB FOR OLD PEOPLE
For some time the Women's Voluntary Service has been considering building a
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