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Free Baths
Free baths at the Public Baths, Squires Lane, N.3, are available to old-age
pensioners on production of their pension book on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Laundry Service for the Incontinent—see page 16.
Housing
No report on the welfare of the elderly would be complete without reference to
their housing problem which, in my opinion, is the one fundamental consideration
and will be found under the appropriate heading—Housing.
Voluntary Organisations
The many voluntary organisations in the Borough provide a wide variety of
services thereby making a major contribution to meet the problems of the elderly.
Details of the facilities available are shown in the Information Section of this Report.
STATE OF EMPLOYMENT
Finchley is largely a residential district containing comparatively little industry or
commerce and is mainly a "white collar" area, the majority of workers travelling to
the City or West End. More manual workers are now settling in the district but again
most of the skilled workers travel to the more industrialised areas of Hendon,
Wembley, Willesden, etc.
The percentage of unemployed workers to the employed population is not known,
but it is believed to be well below the national percentage.
Unemployment usually reaches its lowest point in June of each year, rises again
after Christmas and then starts to decrease in March. Adverse wintry weather conditions,
coupled with a general recession in industry, resulted in a higher rate of
unemployment in 1962 and 1963, but by the end of 1964 the number of unemployed
had fallen to the comparatively low level recorded three years earlier.