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(3) The maintenance of a medical equipment loan depot
at No. 16 Heathfield Terrace, Chiswick, W.4.,
open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7.30 to 8.30
p.m. Emergency contact can be made with Miss
Wallace - telephone number Chiswick 2353.
(4) Occupational therapy for disabled ex-Service
pensioners and for Chest Clinic cases.
(5) The provision of a library service for home-bound
tuberculous patients.
(6) Home visiting in cases of distress and the
provision of urgently required household articles
or home nursing.
(7) The provision of volunteer workers to travel to
and from hospital with sick, aged, blind people or
children.
(8) The supply of instructors in First Aid for Civil
Defence volunteers, adult and youth groups.
(9) The allocation of accommodation in Red Cross Homes,
short or long stay, for old people and convalescence.
ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION
The two stations set up for the measurement of Smoke and
Sulphur Dioxide in the atmosphere continued to function throughout
the year.
One, sited at Chiswick Town Hall, provided a straightforward
record without breaks. The other, which had been sited at
Brentford Baths was moved during the summer as a result off
complaints of smoke and dust nuisance in the Boston Manor area.
This apparatus was set up at Boston Manor House and four months
complete results i.e. August to November inclusive, were recorded.
Unfortunately the damp conditions in the house caused fusing of the
motor which is part of the apparatus. It was decided not to subject
the new motor to the same conditions at Boston Manor House, but to
return to the Brentford Baths site.
The breakdown conncided with the period of the great London
Fog, so that no Brentford readings were available in a week when the
deposit in Chiswick was so heavy as to be above the reading scale
and to require special photo-electric estimation.
Table XV gives the daily Chiswick readings for the fog period
and can be compared unfavourably with the general averages in
Table XIV.
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