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present in use, 3 having been erected during the year and 2
dismantled owing to the death or removal of the patient.
In addition to the supply of shelters, beds and bedding are
supplied on loan for the use of patients at home where suitable
use can be made of them. By this means we are often enabled
to arrange for a patient to sleep alone and so lessen the risk of
infection. Twenty-eight beds are in use at present.
LADY ALMONER
There is no call for any special comment on the work of the
Lady Almoner this year She undertakes a variety of duties
which are concerned mainly with the after-care of patients,
visiting the homes, and co-ordinating as far as possible the different
sources from which it is possible to derive help for patients. She
also acts as Child Protection Visitor under Part XIII of The Public
Health (London) Act, 1936. In the course of her work she has
interviewed several hundred patients and paid a total of 778
visits.