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persons assisted are ineligible to obtain such assistance from any
other charitable organisation or from the Public Assistance Committee,
and provided that the members of the Charity are agreed
that such assistance would be legitimately supplied through a Charity
of this nature.''
The income of the Poplar Tuberculosis Fund has again come mainly
from contributions in respect of Sunday opening of three local Cinemas—
the Poplar Hippodrome, the Poplar Pavilion and the Ideal Picture
Theatre—and this assistance has been much appreciated. Grants have
also been received from the Committee of Alexandra Rose Day (thanks to
the recommendation of his Worship the Mayor of Poplar), the National
Deposit Friendly Society, the Prudential Approved Society, and the
Poplar Benevolent Society, and a dance, a whist drive and a sale were
organised during the year to raise funds. The Committee of the Poplar
Tuberculosis Fund publishes its own Annual Report and Balance Sheet
at the end of the financial year.
The Handicraft Class, attended by about sixteen ex-sanatorium
patients, continues to be held at the Dispensary, once a week, and is
appreciated by the members as a means of occupation. Goods made by
the ex-Service men in the class were disposed of at the Armistice Exhibition
at South Kensington in November, and an Exhibition and Sale of
Work was organised, in co-operation with the Stepney Handicraft Class,
at Toynbee Hall in December.
The Poplar Tuberculosis Care Committee is represented on the
Standing Conference of Metropolitan Borough Tuberculosis Care Committees
and three meetings of the Conference have been attended during
the year. In connection with the Conference a visit was paid to Pinewood
Sanatorium in July.
The Poplar Tuberculosis Care Committee acknowledges with thanks
the assistance of all those who have co-operated in its activities during
the year, and particularly the help of the Poplar branch of the Invalid
Children's Aid Association in connection with the visiting, boarding-out
and convalescence of children.