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17.
MASS MINIATURE RADIOGRAPHY.
In January a communication was received from the London County
Council stating that a Mass Miniature Radiography Unit was being set
up at Bethnal Green Hospital, and that it was available for the
purpose of X-ray examination of Shoreditch residents and employees
of firms in the Borough.
Letters were sent out to over 200 firms inviting them to send
particulars of employees wishing to take advantage of this examination,
and as a result arrangements were made for the examination of 2,892
persons.
V. - SOCIAL WELFARE
OLD PEOPLE'S CLUBS.
The Old People's Clubs continued to meet on Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons at Haggerston Hall and on Monday afternoons at Hoxton Hall,
On February 11th a new club was opened at Hoxton Hall especially for
Enfeebled Pensioners and a small entertainment has been given to them
each Friday afternoon since.
The Bell Pensioners' Club was open from 10,30 a.m. to 5 p.m, on
Monday to Friday inclusive throughout the year* There are club rooms
where games may be played, and cinema shows and other entertainments
given, and there is also a dining room where hot dinners supplied by
Londoners' Meals Service are served daily, at a cost of 8d each. Tea
and cakes made on the premises are available throughout the day.
Handicraft classes at which weaving, basket-making, rug-making,
and toy-making are taught by L.C.C. instructors were continued at all
Club premises and the proceeds of sales of work of articles made,
were used towards the cost of a visit to a pantomime and outings to
the country and seaside.
At the suggestion of the London Gardens Society a Flower Show,
of plants grown by members of the Old People's Clubs, was held at
Hoxton Hall in July and was attended by the Master of the Worshipful
Company of Gardeners, who judged the exhibits. The Show was visited
by Her Majesty the Queen.
A gift of 1,000 lbs of grapes was received from South Africa for
Old Age Pensioners, These were distributed to members of the clubs,
room-bound old people, and sick pensioners in St.Leonard's Hospital
and St, Matthew's Hospital,