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regularly visiting lonely old people and reporting direct to the
Organiser. Several local senior schoolgirls are active in this work.
Among the many miscellaneous voluntary acts being undertaken
in the Borough are car driving, radio repair work, home decorating,
hairdressing, assistance with gardening, the delivery of logs and
chopped wood, and help with shopping, washing and the preparation
of meals.
The New Eltham Townswomen's Guild kindly agreed to run the
Old People's Welfare stall at the Mayor's Michaelmas Market and
raised £30, which is being used for welfare purposes for the old
people.
SALE OF NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
At the end of the year the Old People's Welfare Committee gave
approval to the commencement of a scheme for the distribution of
nutritional food supplements to old people living in the Borough.
Under this scheme supplementary foods such as Horlicks, Ovaltine
and Marmite will be supplied to old people at "welfare prices".
HOUSING
REPAIRS
The number of occupied dwellinghouses in the Borough at the
end of the year was estimated as 45,529. Premises inspected for
defects during the year under the Public Health and Housing Acts,
totalled 2,258. Of the premises inspected 825 were found to be
not in all respects reasonably fit for habitation.
A total of 548 houses were made fit or repaired by informal
action. The number of Intimation Notices served during the year
was 742.
In 277 cases it was found necessary to serve Statutory Notices
in order to ensure that the necessary repairs were carried out.
OVERCROWDING
On complaints of unsatisfactory housing conditions or overcrowding,
or in the course of routine inspections, 111 families
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