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British Red Cross Society to provide replacements
for smaller items of worn equipment
Recuperative Holiday Homes
During the year the borough council accepted
responsibility under Section 28 of the National
Health Service Act 1946 for the maintenance
of 107 persons in recuperative holiday homes
Seventy one were admitted to such homes 33
were cancelled or withdrawn and 3 were
waiting placement at the end of the year
Chiropody Service
The chiropody service is available for the
elderly physically handicapped, expectant and
nursing mothers and children This is provided
at fully equipped council clinics and health
centres and in the parients own homes The
service is augmented by the Heston and Isleworth
Old People s Welfare Committee who
acting as agents on behalf of the borough
council conduct their own clinics and
domiciliary treatments
The demands on the council s directly-
provided service have continued to increase
during 1968 but owing to the continuing shortage
of chiropodists an average of twenty weekly
sessions were held throughout the year in local
authority premises compared with twenty one
and-a-half during 1967 A total of 1 122 clinic
sessions were held at which 1907 patients made
8 072 attendances for treatment Four chiropodists
made 3.812 home visits to patients who were
unable to attend the clinics because of their
infirmity The number of patients requiring
domiciliary treatment increased from 402 to 761
The Heston and Isleworth Old People s
Welfare Committee continued to employ two
chiropodists throughout the year when 153
domiciliary patients received a total of 913 home
visits and 242 patients made 1.108 attendances
at specially arranged sessions The council
paid the organisation an agreed quarterly grant
of £475 which was based on the existing case
load
The Heston and Isleworth Old People s
Welfare Committee works in close co operation
with the Department of Health and provides an
invaluable service as an adjunct to the local
authority s directly-provided service