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field of welfare services, many of these bodies acting
as the Council's agents in this connection.
282 handicapped persons in the Borough of Ilford
have registered with the Welfare Department. They
are visited by officers appointed to assist them with
handicrafts and individual needs. Some attend an
Occupational Centre for the handicapped at Barking and
a further Centre will be opened during 1961 in Ilford."
In Ilford the scheme for other handicapped persons,
so far as voluntary actionis concerned, has been
delegated to a Sub-Committee of the Ilford Social Service
Association of which the Medical Officer of Health
is Chairman."
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948.
(a) Section47 provides for the removal of persons
to hospital who are unable to devote to themselves
proper care and attention.
No persons were dealt with during the year.
(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 burials of three persons were dealt with
during the year:- a male, aged 58 years, who died
in a furnished room; a male, aged 70 years, who
died in a furnished room; a male, aged 60 years, who
died in lodgings.
Miss M. J. Copping, Welfare Officer for Old Folk,
reports as follows:-
"During the year 1960, I paid 684 visits to old
persons and their relatives, and interviewed 336 at
the Public Health Offices, or at some place other
than their own homes; for example I interviewed
several in halls where meetings are held, after I had
given addresses to organisations.
Approximately a third of the interviews at the
Public Health Offices were by appointment, and the
remaining were interviews with callers, who, being
excusably unaware that the bulk of my work is done
outside the Office, arrived unexpectedly to see me.