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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
We gratefully acknowledge the work done for the Old People during the year by
our Constituent Organisations and Co-opted Members, both as part of their own work
and in co-operation with the Committee. Thanks also are due to the Borough Medical
Officer of Health and the County Welfare Officer who always are prepared promptly to
deal with cases where their assistance is required. We further have to thank the
Hendon Borough Council, the Middlesex County Council Sunday Entertainments Fund and
the National Corporation for the Care of Old People for their continued financial
support and those many individuals and organisations who have arranged functions in
support of or have directly contributed to our funds. We would also thank the Local
Press for the publicity which they continuously give to our endeavours. Finally,
I wish, personally, to thank my Fellow Officers, the members of the Executive
Committee and our indefatigable Organising Secretary, all of whom have been untiring
in their efforts to fulfil our task of giving a Helping Hand to the Old People of
Hendon whenever it may have been required,"
HENDON OLD PEOPLE'S HOUSING SOCIETY.
There is a need for more small homes for the increasing number of old people in
the population. The era of the institutional care, when old people were housed in
large numbers in large buildings, has passed. Today our aim should be directed
towards care on a local or even a parochial basis, so that eventually we have a small
home of the Church Walk House type for each ward of the Borough. Church Walk House,
in the Childs Hill Ward, has done most valuable work in providing accommodation for
48 elderly people. I am indebted to the Honorary Secretary, Mr. A. E. Harvey of
36 Grampian Gardens, N.W.2, for the Second Annual Report, in which he stresses the
need for more old people's homes and points out that in the Borough of Hendon there
are approximately 23,000 persons over the age of 60.
STAFF MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.
During the year under review 110 new entrants or employees of the Hendon Borough
Council were medically examined for superannuation purposes.
Of this number, 99 employees were passed as fit, 6 were unfit and in 5 cases
the decision was deferred pending further medical examination.
The number of examinations in respect of each department of the Council was as
follows:-
Town Clerk's 13
Borough Treasurer's 11
Borough Engineer's 55
Library 21
Housing 10
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