Emergency lights for disabled
Soroptimist International of Christchurch, a women’s service club, has given 25 window lights to the Toe H scheme, Lightline. Any elderly or disabled person linked with Lightline can have a flashing emergency light installed in a house. Controls for the batteryoperated light are placed beside the bed and other parts of the homes of those likely to require urgent help. Neighbours and passers-by who see the flashing light will, it is hoped, respond immediately to the call for assistance.
“We feel that members of the public don’t know enough about the meaning of these flashing lights,” Miss Betty Loughhead, the club’s publicity officer, said yesterday,” It is time more publicity and support were given to this important community service.”
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34009, 25 November 1975, Page 6
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123Emergency lights for disabled Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34009, 25 November 1975, Page 6
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