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NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948.
(a) Section 47 provides for the removal of persons
to hospital who are unable to devote to themselves
proper care and attention.
Two persons were dealt with during the year.
They were a male aged 76 years and a female aged
86 years. Both were admitted to hospital.
(b) Section 50 requires a Local Authority to arrange
for the burial or cremation of a person who
has died or been found dead, and where it appears to
the Local Authority no suitable arrangements are
being made for the disposal of the body.
The burial of one person was dealt with during
the year, a male, aged 83 years, who died at home.
Miss M.J. Copping, Welfare Officer for Old Folk,
reports as follows:-
"During the year 1959, 679 visits were paid to
elderly people, and 300 interviews conducted at the
Public Health Offices, and elsewhere with relatives
of the old people, other case workers, Almoners,
Clergy and various persons with an interest in the
cases. Many of the visits and interviews must, to
meet the convenience of relatives, take place in the
evenings or occasionally on Saturday afternoon or
even on Sundays.
The above visits exclude 699 visits to the elderly
made by the Essex County Council Health Visitors
and friendly visits made by voluntary persons which,
I believe, have increased since last year. Certainly
the number of visitors has increased, and I would
like to record my thanks and appreciation of the
efforts of those who so generously spare a little time
from what are without exception very busy lives, to
brighten the lives of the elderly and physically handicapped
and incidentally assist me too by so doing. I
am doubly grateful to those who have come to my
aid immediately in some emergency and those who
have provided transport to and from stations for old
persons proceeding on convalescent holidays. Many