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informal entertainments, and the W.V.S. shop and the British
Red Cross Society Library are much appreciated, and a good
deal of occupational therapy is found very useful."
"Elmwood" was opened in Decemtber, 1952, as an Old
People's Home, next door to "Homefield," so that such patients
as were fit to leave "Homefield" but unable to return home,
could stay with us in the house next door under freer circumstances.
The Home is licensed by the Kent County Council, and
takes patients both from Kent and London. It will hold twenty
patients when completed, but at present we have only fifteen as
some work remains to be done to the house before it is ready
for the full number."