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(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 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 of a 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 1964 there were 14 Junior members in the Brentford and Chiswick Section
and 8 seniors.
The Juniors helped at Brentford Hospital at Blood Sessions made squares
for blankets and made up Emergency kits for the Congo and underprivileged persons
The Seniors carried out many escort duties and helped at the Medical Loan depot,,
at Sports Meetings and Regattas They also helped in the Recovery rooms at the
Blood Sessions and did Welfare work
Weekly meetings are held at 16 Heathfield Terrace, Chiswick, where Home
Nursing and First Aid are practised.
WELFARE OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY-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 were resident during 1964 in the Borough 98 blind and 31 partiallysighted
persons. 20 of these are in full-time employment one is in a Workshop
for the Blind and one is a Home Worker and both receive augmentation and supplementation
of earnings from the County Council There were also 5 partiallysighted
and 6 blind children under the age of 16 years,, 8 of whom wereat Special
Schools. One young blind person over 16 years of age attends a Technical College
The County Council provides a Home Teaching Service for the visitation of
blind and partially-sighted people in their own homes, the object of which is
to enable partially-sighted and blind people to lead as full and active lives
as their handicap allows, The duties of the Home Teachers include advising
blind and partially-sighted persons on all problems relating to their welfare
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