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The arrangements commenced during 1961 for the issue of draw
sheets on loan to incontinent persons and the issue of disposable pads to
such persons being nursed at home have proved of considerable benefit
and there is a large demand for these items. During 1962 a total of 239
draw sheets were loaned to 42 persons and at the 31st December there
were 119 on loan to 21 persons; 12,310 disposable pads were issued
to a total of 67 persons during the year.
Further alarms and pads were purchasedfor loan to children attending
the Enuresis Clinic. Ten children were provided with alarms on loan during
1962 and 38 pads were issued; 6 alarms were on loan at the end of the
year.
CHIROPODY SERVICE. — This service continued during 1962 with
two full-time chiropodists and two part-time (one undertaking five sessions
and the other three sessions per week) until 1st November, when a third
full-time chiropodist took up duty.
Sessions are held at each of the four health services clinics and
also at Newbury Hall. In addition, one chiropodist regularly visits the two
Welfare Committee residential establishments in Ilford and undertakes
domiciliary visits to patients unable to travel, even by ambulance, to a
chiropody clinic. It has also been possible to take over from the 1st
April, 1963 the treatments given to elderly and handicapped persons under
a scheme which had been administered by the Ilford Social Service Association
for some years.
Treatment continues to be given only to those patients in the priority
groups, i.e. the elderly, the physically handicapped and expectant mothers,
although it is intended that the service will be extended to others when
circumstances permit. The standard charge is 2/6d. per week, provision
being made for reduction or remission, according to scale, where the
patient's means do not justify the full charge.
The attendances during the year 1962 were as follows:-