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problems, and the provision of special appliances and aids as necessary.
A Craft Instructor is available to visit handicapped persons in
their homes.
Health Visiting.
Ten Health Visitors/School Nurses, one full-time School Nurse
and one Tuberculosis Health Visitor are employed in the Urban
District. In addition to their school work, Health Visitors are responsible
for the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics, Home Visiting,
Mental Health Visiting, Immunisation and Vaccination, etc.
SERVICES RENDERED BY VOLUNTARY AGENCIES.
The St. John Ambulance Brigade.
Over 60's Clubs.
These agencies continue to carry out their good work in the area.
Women's Voluntary Service.
The County Organiser has kindly furnished the following information:—
Meals on Wheels. This Centre delivered 8,556 meals to 98 old people.
The meals service has been maintained where possible during the
severe weather. In many cases W.V.S. members have cooked meals
in their own homes and delivered them on foot to old people living
nearby. In every case Meals on Wheels recipients were contacted to
make quite sure they had sufficient supplies until the hot meals could
be delivered again.
Darby and Joan Clubs. Both Clubs have had an excellent year.
Welfare work for Old People. The car service organised by this
Centre has been much in demand by both Orpington and Farnborough
Hospitals, to take old people to convalescent Homes and bring them
back to the hospital. They also run a regular car service to enable
old people to visit elderly relatives in hospital, picking up from as far
away as Beckenham. They average about thirty journeys per month.
They have also taken elderly people to visit Specialists at the London
Hospitals. Visiting, shopping and in some cases, taking old people
shopping by car is another form of their work. They have a constant
demand for wheel chairs and at present fifteen are out on loan to
old folk.
This centre recently donated £241 15s. 9d. to Farnborough Hospital—profits
from the Trolley Shop—for the furnishing of the
Geriatric Day Room.
British Red Cross—Medical Loan Depot.
One medical loan depot is in operation in the area, where a full
range of nursing requisites is held and articles are available to local
residents. A small charge is normally made, but, in necessitous cases
and for most old age pensioners, articles are loaned free.
The address of this depot is 1, Birchwood Road, Petts Wood, and
it is opened by appointment. Application should be made to Mrs.
Jones at that address—'Telephone Number Orpington 22083.