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Other donations included -
L.C.C. Sunday Cinema Entertainments Fund £40
United Charities of St.Leonard £10
Shoreditch Rotary Club £ 5
The grants from the Cancer Relief Fund were paid out in fortnightly amounts
to the specific patients for whom the grant was obtained.
An amount of £17. 0. 3. was paid back into the general Tuberculosis Care
Fund from the Occupational Therapy Fund, as this service has been discontinued
for the time being.
Help was also very quickly and generously given to necessitous patients
(tuberculous and non-tuberculous) by the Soldiers1, Sailors1 and Airmen's
Association and the Forces Help Society, as well as other voluntary societies,
such as the Glasspool Trust and the Shaftesbury Society, and we should like to
thank all these voluntary associations for their response to our requests."
SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES.
During I960, an excellent book of 160 pages was published by the Codicote
Press, entitled "Councils, Committees and Concern for the Old", with a sub-title
"A study of the Provision, Extent and Co-ordination of certain services for Old
People in the County of London."
The book was written by Miss Kathleen M. Slack of the London School of
Economics and shows up favourably the Shoreditch treatment of its old people.
A few of the facilities provided in the Borough are not mentioned, however,
and I hope to get these amended in any future editions of the book, - for
instance, it is stated in Table 5 of "the appendix that there are no special
facilities for old people at the Council's Public Baths, whereas for many years
now, old people have been allowed free baths, towels and soap on any day of the
week on production of their pension books, though they are not encouraged to
go on Saturdays when the rush is too great. Free baths are also given at one
of our old people's clubs (Moorfields), and the Council's three old people's
visitors give regular baths to homebound old people in their own homes whenever
required (for this purpose the visitors usually work in pairs.)
In Table 11, the extent of laundry facilities for old people is quoted as
"unknown". While this is partly true, owing to the fact that it is unknown
how many articles are washed by old people or home helps on their behalf at
the Council's Public Laundries or estate washing machines, there were 881
articles washed in i960, under contract, at St.Matthew's Hospital (later
Bethnal Green Hospital) on behalf of the Borough Council..
In Table 13, points omitted include Christmas parcels (of which 67O were
distributed from various sources, chiefly the Old People's Welfare Committee
per Joint Welfare Committee, Rotary and so on); Annual Church Service (in
which Shoreditch has for the past 3 years linked with Finsbuiy instead of