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Many patients were helped from private sources, for example,
in the way of clothing, boots, beds, etc.
To a large number of patients personal help in discussing
difficulties was given in addition to the above.
The following items will show how part of the Christmas Seal
Fund was spent:—
Pocket money to 19 more or less destitute patients while they
were away at sanatorium.
Clothing to 15 patients.
Mothers' Help in the case of 10 patients while awaiting sanatorium
treatment or as a convalescent measure for a short period
after leaving sanatorium.
Payment of fares in 36 cases where relations would otherwise
have been unable to visit patients in sanatoria —many at some
considerable distance from London.
Purchase of surgical appliances and bed comforts in 18 cases.
Paying arrears of National Health Insurance stamps in 10 cases.
Paying for board and lodging in 6 cases.
Purchase of spectacles in one case.
Advertising for jobs in 2 cases.
Purchase of beds and bedding in 7 cases.
The Handicraft Class.
The Handicraft Class has enjoyed its work and done it well.
Prizes were won at an Exhibition held at County Hall and ex-service
men gained certificates at the Ward Industries Exhibition. An
Exhibition and Sale of handicraft work was held at Carpenters'
Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, on October 24th and 25th. The handicraft
classes of 13 boroughs took part. The Camberwell class
sold £30 3s. 6d. worth of goods and took orders to the value of
£8 19s. 6d.
WILLIAM BRAND, Tuberculosis Officer.