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Grants may be made under Section 31 of the National Assistance Act,1948
to Voluntary Associations whose activities include the provision of
recreation and meals for old people. There are 18 old people's clubs
in the Borough, -whose activities are co-ordinated by The Stepney Old
People's Welfare Association. The Council is represented on this body
by the Chairman of the Public Health Committee and other members of the
Council and by the Medical Officer of Health, and applications to the
Council by old people's clubs for grants under the National Assistance
Act, 1948, are referred to the Association for investigation. Grants
made by the Council to The Stepney Old People's Welfare Association and
to old people's clubs during the year amounted to approximately £2,675.
A list of the Clubs and facilities will be found on Page 70.
A Mobile Meals Service is run jointly by The Old People's Welfare
Association and The Women's Voluntary Services, and a weekly average of
342 meals was delivered to homebound old people. Five of the clubs,
which include luncheon clubs among their facilities, provided an average
of 234 meals each week.
A Chiropody Service is provided and a wholetime chiropodist employed
by The Stepney Old People's Welfare Association at clinics which are
situated in six of the old people's clubs in the Borough, and on an average
238 treatments were given each month during the year.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
The London County Council is responsible for the provision of
ambulance transport within the Administrative County of London.
CONFERENCES.

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(*) Hon.Secretary, The Stepney Old People's Welfare Association,
St.Katharine's, Butcher Row, Cable Street, E.14.
(Telephone: STEpney Green 3659).
Voluntary visitors are urgently required, and should apply
to the Secretary.
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