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Last year a residential Home was opened in Childs Hill by the Hendon Old
People's Housing Society, which accommodates 42 old people, 90% of whom are Hendonians.
It is a great pleasure to see how happy and contented the old folk are in this Home.
We note with satisfaction that further one-room flatlets are being built by the
Hendon Borough Council in Station Road, N.W.4, for the old people.
CHRISTMAS DINNERS.
112 Christmas dinners were taken to House-bound old people, and we are indebted
to the W.V.S. in assisting us to distribute these.
VISITS etc., FROM 1ST APRIL, 1955, TO 31ST MARCH, 1956.
Old people who called at the office for advice 725
Visits made from the office to ill or house-bound people 387
Visits made by other Lady Visitors 636
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Old people helped to find accommodation 45
Old people helped to find part employment 36
Help given in arranging for holidays and convalescence 30
Cases under care from 31st March, 1955 93
New cases 1st April, 1955, to 31st March, 1956 116
Cases sent in by:-
Welfare Officer 10
Hospitals 32
Local Authorities 30
Brought to our notice (other than above) 44
Districts:-
Edgware 222
Mill Hill 171
Burnt Oak 298
West Hendon and Colindale 275
Hendon Central 277
Childs Hill 273
Garden Suburb 70
Golders Green 162
1,748
Chiropody:-
Total cases:- House-bound 66: Treatments 148
Total cases:- At Clinic 87: Treatments 344
The office of the Committee is situated in the Methodist Church Hall (Room 3),
The Burroughs, Hendon, N.W.4, Telephone HENdon 0404, and is open Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, to deal with any enquiry relating to old people and for
interviews.
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