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Other activities of the Association include:-
Domiciliary and Clinic Chiropdy 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 the year ending 31st March, 1964.
(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 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. Applications
for a holiday were received from some 1 326 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 819 persons were accommodated
of whom 673 had one week's holiday and 146 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 1,199 applicants. When the adjoining house came into
the market at the end of the year the Council decided to purchase it, and
works of adaptation were put in hand which, when completed, will increase the
accommodation for guests from 22 to 34.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT 1948. SECTION 47 (Removal to suitable premises of
persons in need of care and attention). Although a number of old people were
brought to the notice of the department during the year, in no case was it
necessary to invoke the powers of this section which enables a magistrate to
make an Order requiring the compulsory removal to a hospital or other suitable
place of any person in need of care and attention.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1953. SECTION 43 (Power of
sanitary authorities to cleanse aged and feeble persons in their own homes or
elsewhere), This bathing service for elderly and other handicapped persons
continues to fill a very real need. During the year 162 persons were given
1,769 baths; some 94 persons had 955 baths at the Millfields centre and 68
persons received 814 baths in their own homes.
The following statistics give some indication of the day-to day activities
of the Department in connection with aged persons:-