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(b) Hackney Association for Workshops for the Elderly. The Borough
Council again made a grant of £400 to this voluntary association This
organisation, now in its fifth year, continues to prosper and between 70
and 80 old people worked daily shifts of two hours.
During the year under review it was decided to provide an ad hoc building
on a vacant plot of land in Ellingfort Road, E. 8. A considerable sum of
money has been raised towards the cost of this extension of the Association's
activities and it is hoped that work on the erection of the new premises will
commence in the autumn of 1960.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1953 SECTION 43 (Power of
sanitary authorities to cleanse aged and enfeebled persons in their own homes
or elsewhere) The 84 new applications for this service for 33 men and 51
women were made by General Practitioners, Home Nurses and Hospital Almoners.
In all 132 old people were given 1,568 baths; 68 persons had 585 baths at
Millfields and 53 persons had 779 baths in their own homes; in addition,
11 persons received 150 baths at the Cleansing Station, as well as 54 baths
in their own homes.
Apart from the activities listed below, emphasis is always laid on health
education in the day-to-day work of the Officers of the Department In this
connection it is felt that much can be achieved by the contacts members of the
staff ordinarily make with people in their own homes, in shops, factories and
elsewhere.
The showcases at the Hillman Street entrance to the Town Hall were again
used for displays on various health subjects. Current health topics were
dealt with throughout the year by the exhibition of posters, distribution of
leaflets, book marks, etc., and in this connection I would like to record my
appreciation of the valuable assistance we continue to receive from the Borough
Librarian and his staff.
The following talks and film shows were given by the Department s Officers
during the year:-
HEALTH EDUCATION
Organisation
St, Luke's Church Mothers' Union
Subject
Domestic Smoke Control (with films "Guilty
Chimneys'' and "The Future is Electric").
St. Michael1 s Church Women s
Fellowship
Home Safety (with film strip on "The
Work of the Public Health Inspector").
Hackney Central Conservative
Association (Women* s Section)
Smoke Abatement., The Clean Air Act,
1956 (Smoke Control Areas and Domestic
Smoke Control),
Clapton Women's Co-operative
Guild
Smoke Abatement. The Clean Air Act,
1956. Smoke Control Areas (with film
"Smoke Abatement in Pittsburg").
Hackney and District Chamber of
Commerce
Smoke Control (with particular reference
to industrial boilers and furnaces)
(with film on "Dust Collection and Smoke
Abatement").