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(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.
(3) The maintenance of a medical equipment loan depot
at No. 16 Heathfield Terrace, Chiswick, W040
open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7030 to 8.30
p.m. Emergency contact can be made with Miss Wallace
telephone number Chiswick 2353°
(4) Occupational therapy for the 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, except for a period of two and a half months during which the
apparatus at Brentford first required overhaul and then re-siting to
Boston Lodge in order to obtain more evidence of pollution
specifically complained of in that area.
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