MEALS ON WHEELS
Hospital Board To Help Some of the meals taken round to elderly people by the Red Cross Society in Christchurch will in future be provided by the North Canterbury Hospital Board from the kitchen of the Princess Margaret Hospital. This was agreed yesterday by the board in response to a request by the society. Mrs W. S. Mac Gibbon said that the demand flor the service was contiiniually growing. The maximium number of meals which could be comfortably handled daily by the society’s kitchen was 200, but through the winter 235 meals were sent out and 228 were still being served at present. The society had reason to believe that the Nurse Maude Association and some family doctors were hesitating to recommend deserving cases to the society because of the already heavy strain on its facilities. Miss B. Webb asked if, when the board began to provide some of the meals, a service could be provided at week-ends to supplement the weekday service run by the society.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29992, 29 November 1962, Page 19
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