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3. Dinners for school children and nourishing food, milk and
eggs for the patient.
4. Monetary allowances to the family until the children are
old enough to work.
5. Subsidy by way of a loan to a family to enable them to
pay arrears of rent and remove to a healthier neighbourhood and
to a healthier house.
6. Nursing facilities for the patient and his family.
7. The treatment of enlarged tonsils, and the correction of
diseases and deformities of the nose, throat and mouth interfering
with the patient's progress.
The provision of false teeth and the filling of decayed teeth.
The surgical treatment of pleural effusions, of empyemata, and
of tuberculous glands.
Open Air Shelters.—These are wooden structures holding
a narrow bed or fitted with a seat large enough to accommodate
a mattress.
The shelters are easily moved, easily taken to pieces, and
allow of means of free ventilation which can be adjusted to
varying wind directions.
They cost from £7 to £15 each.
In Paddington they have been made from old Church pews.
They are adapted for open-air treatment; the patient lives and
sleeps in them.
They may be placed on flat roofs, on the leads, in backyards or
in the garden.
They are used for the following purposes:—
1. The after-treatment of patients discharged from a sanatorium.
2. The treatment of early cases who do not wish to give up
their work in order to enter a sanatorium.