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Other activities of the Association include:
Domiciliary and Clinic Chiropody Services
Domiciliary Barber Service
Visiting of Old people in their homes
Assisted holiday scheme
Distribution of Harvest Festival and Christmas gifts
Distribution of furniture, clothes, beddings, etc.
Transport of old people to hospitals, dental surgeries, etc.
Advice on various problems
(b) Victoria Kosher Meals on Wheels Committee, A grant of £500 was made to
this organisation for year ending 31st March 1965. in addition, a bonus grant
of 33/4 was paid per week for every unit of 25 meals, or part of a unit of 25
meals served over a figure of 250 meals per week, this bonus grant to be
additional to the existing subvention of 1/2 per meal
(c) Hackney Association for Workshops for the Elderly. The Borough Council
made a grant of £3,000 to this Association. It runs two workshops one in
Ellingfort Road and one in Pedro Street providing accommodation for a total
of 150 retired men and women working shifts of two hours
CHALFONTS HOLIDAY HOTEL was opened for the reception of guests on the 17th
April 1961 with accommodation for 20 persons The extension to Chalfont's
was completed in March 1964 and was officially opened on 1st April, 1964.
Accommodation for guests at the holiday hotel was thereby increased from 20 to
34. 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. Applications for a holiday were received from
some 1224 persons, and all the applications were graded in order of priority,
dependent upon when the applicants last had a holiday. During the year under
review some 1283 persons were accommodated of whom 1177 had one week' s holiday
and 106 had a holiday of two weeks duration. The success of this venture is
illustrated by the large number of letters of thanks and appreciation which
have been received from persons who have had the benefit of such a holiday and
by the fact that at the end of the year there was a waiting list of 937
applicants.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT 1963 SECTION 43 (Power of
sanitary authorities to cleanse aged and feeble persons in their own homes
or elsewhere). The bathing service for elderly and other handicapped persons
continues to be greatly appreciated and in the year under review 180 old
people were given 1 154 baths Some 97 persons had 592 baths at the Millfields
Centre, and 83 persons received 562 baths in their own homes