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BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
The provision of sick room requisites. Various items of sick room equipment are
available on loan at a very small charge, or in the case of persons on national assistance
articles may be supplied free. Such articles as crutches and indoor and outdoor invalid
chairs are included in this equipment.
Chiropody
Appointments are made for treatment at reduced charges.
Escort Duties
Escort duties are performed, for example, sick persons may be met at the main
railway stations and escorted through London to their destinations.
Various other services are given such as:—
Manning First Aid Posts at public functions and private entertainments.
Nursing in the home in emergencies.
Blanket bathing in the home for men and women.
Assisting in carrying patients up and down stairs, where required, when
ambulance service is not available.
Driving disabled patients to clubs by volunteer drivers.
Clubs for the elderly and handicraft clubs for the disabled.
Paying home welfare visits on behalf of the Family Welfare Association, the
Invalid Children's Aid Association, and various Services Benevolent
Associations.
Red Cross Services available in cases of sickness, disablement and infirmity
from old age.
All enquiries to be directed to Miss F. M. Rochat, Divisional Director, British Red
Cross Society, 172, Regents Park Road, N.3. (FINchley 2588).
OCTOPUS CLUB
The Finchley Borough Council have continued to grant to the Octopus Club the
use of the Indoor Bath at Squires Lane on alternate Sundays from 12.30 p.m. to
2 p.m. The total membership of the Club is about 50 and the average number of
members who attend each session is about 26.
The Club does not confine itself to those who have suffered from poliomyelitis.
Persons who have suffered from any kind of disablement may attend at the Bath,
providing that each can produce a certificate from his family doctor stating that he is
free from infection and would benefit from attending the swimming sessions. The cases
are collected from a wide area by ambulance and cars (such arrangements being made
by the Infantile Paralysis Fellowship) and are assisted in changing and serving hot
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