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Woodside Park Club, Woodside Hall, Woodside Park Road, N.12.
Wednesdays—2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Enquiries to Mrs. K. Bookatz, 22, Hemington Avenue, N.ll. (Tel.:
ENTerprise 0416).
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, often to places
outside London.
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.
Lectures and training in first-aid, nursing and mothercraft given to members
of the public and National Hospital Service Reserve.
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.
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