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In April, an inaugural meeting was held of representatives of Local Associations
interested in Old People's Welfare, to introduce the idea of the scheme and to ascertain the
amount of support likely to be forthcoming. The Mayor of Southall was in the Chair.
When a Voluntary Committee, named the Southall Association for the Occupation of the
Elderly, was formed in September, the Chairman of the Public Health Committee was elected
as Chairman, the Medical Officer of Health as Honorary Secretary, and the Borough
Treasurer as Honorary Treasurer. Work proceeded throughout the year in an endeavour
to raise funds for the scheme, to obtain a Work Centre, and to make the industrialists and the
general public aware of the facilities which were to be offered. As the scheme was planned
for old persons of varying capacity for work, it was known that it should never be a selfsupporting
concern, but must always be a semi-charitable one.
By the end of the year premises had been offered by Southall Borough Council in the
Municipal Sports Ground and sufficient funds for starting the scheme had been obtained
from the local Council, Middlesex County Council and other sources, and it was hoped that a
start could be made to operate the scheme in the following spring.
National Assistance Act, 1948, Section 47:
National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1951:
No case was dealt with under these powers during 1956.
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