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able 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 Elderly
and infirm people were visited in their own homes under the Good Neighbours
scheme introduced last year
Members of the two Cadet Divisions attend Sports Meetings as messengers
and carry out duty at the West Middlesex Hospital and Belfairs 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 1963 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 load depot at No 16 Heathfield
Terrace, Chiswick w.4. open on Mondays 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
(4) Occupational therapy for the disabled ex Service pensioners and for
the Chest Clinic cases
(5) The provision ofa library service for home bound tuberculous patients
(6) Home visiting in cases of distress and the provision of urgently required
clothes food and 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 and examiners in First Aid and Home Nursing
for adult and youth groups and for Civil Defence volunteers
(9) Red Cross Home for the Aged Administration of Red Cross Convalescent
Home for Patients from the Geriatric Ward at West Middlesex Hospital
(10) Attendance at permanent and temporary First Aid Posts when required
In addition, there is a flourishing Junior Red Cross Unit at Chiswick
some of whose members help at the local hospitals
WELFARE OF THE BLIND AND PARTI ALLY-SIGHTED
The County Council is responsible under the National Assistance Act, 1948
for the provision of welfare services for the blind and partially-sighted
There was resident during 1963 in the Borough 102 blind and 26 partiallysighted
persons 20 of these were in full-time employment one was in a Workshop
for the Blind and one was a Home Worker and both received augmentation
and supplementation of earnings from the County Council There were also 4
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