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those requiring financial or other assistance are reported
to the Care Committee.
In the early days of the Dispensary a good deal of
overlapping took place between the visits paid by the
nurses and those paid by the Care Committee Visitors,
but the duties of each have now become clearly defined,
and the overlapping has been almost entirely abolished.
The Dispensary and its Care Committee are associated
in their work with many official and voluntary
bodies, including the following: London County
Council, War Pensions Ministry, School Authorities
and their Care Committees, Charity Organisation
Society, Invalid Children's Aid Association, Children's
Country Holiday Fund, Approved Societies, Almoners'
departments of Hospitals, Benevolent Societies, including
the Peterborough Benevolent Society in Fulham,
Welfare Departments of large business houses,
and last, but not least, the Guardians ; each of these
is represented on the Care Committee. Committee
meetings take place once a fortnight, and urgent cases
are dealt with by the Chairman, Tuberculosis Officer
and Secretary.
Although the patient naturally receives first consideration,
the family is taken as the unit and not the
individual, as the Dispensary deals both with the
treatment of the patient and prevention of infection
of other members of the household.
Tuberculosis care work falls under the following
heads:—
1. Securing Financial Help or Help in Kind.—The
Fulham Committee gives no help directly, but is responsible
for seeing that help is given through other
agencies. Financial help is obtained from the Charity
Organisation Society, the United Services Fund, the
British Red Cross Association or from the Guardians.
The financial enquiries regarding income and expenditure
are made and recorded by a visitor from