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A Home Work Organiser has been appointed and some handicapped persons who
are unable to obtain employment in open industry but who are suitable for a
certain amount of light work are provided with this on a part-time basis at a
Work Centre or at Home.
Advice and guidance regarding personal problems are given, and membership
of a voluntary organisation catering for a particular handicap is facilitated.
Services to the deaf and dumb and the hard of hearing are provided by appropriate
voluntary organisations, to whom the County Council makes grants in aid.
Brentford and Chiswick choral classes for handicapped persons are held on
Friday evenings at Belmont School, Belmont Road, Chiswick. Each year this class
takes part in the Choral Festival arranged for handicapped persons by the County Council
A special coach with hydraulic lifting- device at the back is in use for
taking handicapped persons to club activities, handcraft classes and the choral
classes. This coaoh is for those who cannot travel by public transport or in
any other ordinary car or coach. Wheelchair cases can be lifted into the coach
while remaining seated in their chairs.
At 31st December, 1960, 121 residents of the Borough were registered as
generally handicapped
The Brentford and Chiswick Group of the Middlesex and Surrey League for the
Hard of Hearing, meets weekly in the Borough, There are social meetings, talks
and discussions, outings and visits to other groups in the County The Club has
elected a Welfare Officer to visit sick and housebound members,
A Club for the Physically Handicapped is maintained by Chiswick Mission
(a Branch of the Shaftesbury Society). The disablements are various and trans
port is arranged by the Rotary Club for those who cannot travel easily. The Club
meets once a month for social purposes,
The Multiple Sclerosis Society maintains a Branch known as the West London
Branch, which has 20 members from this Borough. Social meetings entertainments,
and the arrangement of and help with holidays for members is carried out
WELFARE - RELIEF OF DISTRESS
Brentford Philanthropic Society and Chiswick Philanthropic Society are
charitable associations which exist to give help to any in heed who are as yet
outside of the many statutory provisions for Welfare A request for help is
followed by a visit from a representative of the Society and gifts of coal, extra
comforts, special foods, or help with payment for holidays are some of the many
provisions which have been made. The Brentford Society also provided in 1960,
a free holiday for 80 old age pensioners and distributed a cash gift of 7/6 and
a box of biscuits to 683 old folk at Christmas and the Chiswick Society took
82 elderly residents to the seaside for the day and gave a cash gift of £1 at
Christmas to 207 needy elderly people, and £1 5s, 0d (including 5/- from the
Mulligan Trust Fund which the Society disburses) to 24 others:
Residents of the Borough needing any of the County Welfare Servicesbriefly
referred to in this Report should applyHo the Area Welfare Officer, Mr, J.F.
Cronk, at the Local County Offices, Great West Road Brentford,
WELFARE - SCHOOL CHILDREN
In 1960, 714,744 meals and 1,043 927 bottles of milk were provided at
Schools in this Borough.
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