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Morland Estate, E.8. Stamford Hill Friendship.
Nisbet House, E.9 Egerton Road, N.16.
Over 60 s, Stoke Newington Friendship,
Clapton Pond E.5. Shacklewell lane. N 16,
Rectory Road Congregational Church, Summit Estate N.16.
Rectory Road N.16. Victoria Luncheon & Friendship
St James, Club.
Powell Road, E.5. Egerton Road, N.16.
St. Michaels. Wigan & Wren's Park House.
Lamb Lane E.8. Upper Clapton, E.5.
Other activities of the Association include:-
Domiciliary and Clinic Chiropody Services
Visiting of old people in their homes
Meals on Wheels (an average of some 225 meals were delivered
each week)
Assisted holiday scheme
Distribution of Harvest Festival and Christmas gifts
Distribution of furniture, clothes bedding, etc.
Transport of old people to hospitals, dental surgeries, etc.
Advice on various problems.
(b) Victoria Kosher Meals on Wheels Committee. A grant of £300 was made
to this organisation.
(c) Hackney Association for Workshops for the Elderly. The Borough Council
made a grant of £1,500 to this Association The new workshop in Ellingfort
Road was established in 1961, and provides for up to 150 retired men and women
working shifts of two hours. The Pedro Street workshops established in 1956
provide accommodation for 100 persons.
CHALFONTS HOLIDAY HOTEL was opened for the reception of guests on the 17th
April, 1961 and has accommodation for 20 persons. Applicants for admission
must be residents of Hackney and priority is given to elderly men and women in
need of a change and who have not had a holiday for some time. The Hotel does
not provide for sick persons or for convalescence after illness. The duration
of the holiday is normally one week, Monday to Monday and guests are taken
from and returned to Hackney Town Hall by private coach During the year
1 388 applications were received from persons who were graded in order of
priority depending on when they last had a holiday. During the past year
some 828 persons have been accommodated of whom 706 had one week s holiday and
122 had a holiday of two week's duration.
Special arrangements were made to celebrate the occasion of the departure
of the one-thousandth guest on the 18th June. 1962, when The Worshipful the
Mayor Councillor D. West, the Mayoress and the Chairman and Members of the
Holiday Hotel Sub-Committee were present to wish the departing guests a happy
holiday. A memento in the form of a suitably inscribed card was presented to
each of the guests leaving for a holiday at Chalfonts on that day.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT. 1948 SECTION 47 (Removal to suitable
premises of persons in need of care and attention). It was unfortunately
necessary to have recourse to the powers contained in this section in the
case of an old lady aged 88 years infirm and physically handicapped living
in insanitary conditions and not receiving proper care and attention. An
Order for her removal to the Hackney Hospital was obtained from the Justice
of the Peace.