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MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.

WELFARE OF OLD. PEOPLE.
There is in the Borough much voluntary activity devoted to
this cause. Seven Clubs meet weekly in various parts of the
district and there is another which opens daily. A chiropody
service for which there is very great demand has been organised
and five sessions per week are held.
Seaside holidays for parties of elderly people are arranged
annually, and there is a distribution of dinners to the housebound
at Christmas.
Home visiting is carried out so far as the availability of
visitors permits, and there is close co-operation with official
bodies.
All this work is co-ordinated through the Surbiton Old
People's Welfare Committee, a voluntary body representative of
most walks of life in the Borough and presided over by His Worship
the Mayor.
The Committee hopes to expand its activities at an early date
following successful negotiations with the Borough Council for the
leasing of a large house which will be an Old People's Centre
including club, recreation rooms, chiropody clinic, canteen, office,
etc.
The Council makes a generous contribution towards the cost of
the Meals on 'heels service which is operated by the Surbiton
Division of the British Red Cross Society.
The number of subsidised mid-day meals distributed during
the year was 4,010.
The Council has provided twenty-eight special flatlets for
aged people, and a further sixty such dwellings are shortly to
be erected.
WATER SUPPLY.
The whole of the water supply for the Borough comes from
the Metropolitan Water Board and is satisfactory both as regards
quantity and quality.
All premises have a direct mains supply and there are no
wells in use.
Monthly reports are supplied by the Board giving details
of their chemical and bacteriological examinations.
Eleven bacteriological samples were taken by the
Department for special reasons and all were satisfactory.
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