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Meals on Wheels
The provision of wid-day meals once a week cooked at the Town
Hall Staff Canteen and conveyed to the homes of the housebound
elderly or "chronic sick was continued throughout the year by the Old
Folks Kind Committee: 1,049 such meals were delivered during 1952.
In addition to this service, the Invalid Kitchens of London
provided meals for 6 residents of the Borough. In each of these
cases the number of meals provided was either 4 or 5 per week and
individual provision was made for persons requiring special diets.
General
The Superintendent of the local St. John's Ambulance
Association and the Divisional Director of the British Red Cross
Society have kindly supplied information concerning their welfare
work in the Borough:-
St. John's Ambulance Brigade
(1) Attendance at sports meetings, public gatherings
and entertainments to render first aid if
required.
(2) Conveyance of patients by ambulance to supplement
the County Ambulance facilities.
(3) Maintenance of Comforts Depot from which supplies
of medical equipment can be issued on loan.
(4) The provision of instructors for classes in First
Aid and Home Nursing to Civil Defence volunteers,
adult and youth groups.
(5) Voluntary aid in hospital wards, male and female.
(6) Provision of nursing attendants for meetings and
outings of old persons organised by the various
Old People's Associations.
(7) Courses of lectures on First Aid to factory staffs
and local factory fire brigade personnel.
British Red Cross Society
(1) The arrangement of sessions for the taking of
blood for the transfusion service, and the provision
of volunteer assistants during the periods of the
blood transfusion service operations.
(2) Ambulance transport for the sick to supplement the
County Ambulance facilities.
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