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The net result of the Seal Sale was £117.12.3d. (after of the net
profit has been allotted to the Chest & Heart Association)

The year was marred by the accidental death of Miss E.B. Guest, in
January 1962. As Secretary of the Care Committee and Care Organiser, she
had worked in the Shoreditch Chest Clinic for sixteen years, and had been a
friend and helper to all our patients in bhoreditch and S.W. .iackney.
Miss Guest is sadly missed, and it is hoped that a perpetual plaque may
be arranged in her memory."
SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES.
All services to old people continued unabated the good work they have
now been doing for many years. Perhaps the principal change was the
conversion of the Haggerston Old People's Club from part-time to full-time
working, so that we have at last provided for the old folk in each quarter of
the Borough, a home from home where they can live, if necessary, from 10 a.m.
to 4.30 p.m. each Monday to Friday inclusive and obtain every necessity or
pleasure available at less than cost price. The main reason for a home of
their own is for sleeping; and many of them do just this during the winter
months. The special club concert given at Hoxton Hall each Friday, with the
help of members of the Concert Artistes' Association, continues to attract
full houses, and every seaside or country outing is always fully booked - not
to mention the pantomines, annual Xmas dinners and so forth.
In other words, there is no excuse for a pensioner in this Borough to
feel lonely, starve or be short of any reasonable need.
The Council's Holiday Home, despite vicissitudes following Miss Stacey's
retirement as Matron after 30 years with Shoreditch folk, has continued to
serve people from both the Borough of Shoreditch and from the whole area
served by King Edward's Hospital Fund.
Daily abjut 100 "meals on wheels" continued to be served at Clubs and (by
W.V.S. and Salvation Army) to homebound folk each Monday to Friday, the price
remaining at lOd. despite increased costs.
Countless other services were rendered, particularly by our three
lady visitors, who again topped the 4000 mark with their visits.
A reasonably comprehensive list of amenities provided directly by the