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(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, W. 4., open on Mondays
and Wednesdays from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m. Emergency contact
can be made with Miss Wallace- telephone No. Chiswick 2353.
(4) Occupational therapy for the disabled ex-Service pensioners
and for Chest CIinic 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 convalescents.
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 months when the apparatus at the Chiswick station was being overhauled,
(see Table XIV, Page 49 ).
Monthly reports of recordings and other particulars were submitted to the
Fuel Research Station of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
for comparison with the rest of the country, and the Officers of the Fuel Research
Station were consulted at any time when special problems occurred concerning
the reading of results or breakdown of equipment. Bulletins from the Department
of Scientific and Industrial Research were received regularly and studied in
the Public Health Department so that results could be compared with those in
other areas.
A brief summary of the year's recordings follows in Table XIV. These recordings
are represented in graph form as Graph "C". Graph "D" shows the monthly
rise and fall in the pollution figures for Brentford and Chiswick, also Leeds,
Central London and Lerwick. These latter places have been chosen in order to
illustrate the varying amounts of pollution from a virtually smokeless atmosphere
i.e. Lerwick, to an industrial area i.e. Leeds.
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