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The offer was to include free replacement of faulty pipes and the free
repair of faulty appliances.
GENERAL
The Public Duty Officer 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 76 (71 in 1961) uniformed members in the Borough who,
between them, performed 2,810 (2,508 in 1961) hours of voluntary public duty.
The No. 54 Brentford and Chiswick Ambulance 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 local Scout troops. They send attendants to Old People’s gatherings
and outings.
The members of the No.135 Brentford and Chiswick Nursing Division 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 by the Matron. 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 An
innovation during the year was to provide a Good Neighbours scheme and as a
result, elderly and infirm people are visited in their own homes.
Members of the two Cadet Divisions attend Sports Meetings as messengers
and carry out duty at the West Middlesex Hospital and Bel fairs Home for the
Aged in Chiswick.
British Red Cross Society
Brentford, Chiswick and Ealing combine to form Ealing Area Division of
this society and work carried on throughout 1962 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.
(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, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
from 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. and on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
from 11 a.m. to 12 noon.
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