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Home Safety
The North Thames Gas Board who in 1956 offered a free service of inspection
of the gas appliances and service pipes in houses of old age pensioners living
alone continued to arrange for inspections during the year,, The reason for
this was in order to reduce the risk of gas poisoning, a frequent cause of home
accidents and fatalities in old people.
The offer was to include free replacement of faulty pipes and the free
repair of faulty appliances.
GENERAL
The District Superintendent of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and the
Divisional Director of the British Red Cross Society have kindly supplied
information concerning their welfare work in the Borough
St. John Ambulance Brigade
There are 4 Divisions of St. John Ambulance Brigade in this Borough
No 54 Brentford & Chiswick Ambulance Division
No 135 Brentford & Chiswick Nursing Division
No 95 Brentford & Chiswick Ambulance Cadet Division
No 86 Brentford & Chiswick Nursing Cadet Division
The Divisions have 71 uniformed members in the Borough who, between them,
performed 2,508 hours of voluntary public duty.
The No 54 Brentford & Chiswick Ambulance Division own an ambulance which
is used to supplement the County Ambulance facilities. This Division covers
duties at the Brentford Football Ground, at various Sports Meetings and cricket
matches They supply an Instructor for First Aid and organise St John Ambulance
Association classes for the local Civil Defence Corps and they also instruct
in First Aid certain of the local Scout troops They send attendants to Old
People s gatherings and outings and transport by motor ambulance is provided for
several members of the Infantile Paralysis Fellowship to their monthly social
gatherings
So far as No 135 Brentford & Chiswick Nursing Division is concerned, its
members do duty at local Sports Meetings, Public gatherings and Entertainments,,
All members of the Division are also members of the National Hospital Service
Reserve and available for duty in the local Hospital when required bytheMatronc
One member is available at all times to assist in the Old People" s Home in
Chiswick and is often called on by the Matron of the Home at a minute's notice.
Both First Aid and Home Nursing lectures have been given during the course of
the year
With regard to the two Cadet Divisions,, they attend Sports Meetings as
messengers and carry out duty at the West Middlesex Hospital and Belfairs Home
for the Aged at Chiswicko
British Red Cross Society
Brentford Chiswick and Ealing combine to form Ealing Area Division of
this society and work carried on throughout 1961 was as follows:-
(1) 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.
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