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The following items will show how part of the Christmas Seal
Fund was spent: —
Pocket money to 18 more or less destitute patients while they
were away at sanatorium.
Clothing to 23 patients.
Mothers' Help in the case of 3 patients while awaiting sanatorium
treatment or as a convalescent measure for a short period
after leaving sanatorium.
Payment of fares in 33 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 10 cases.
Paving arrears of National Health Insurance stamps in 9 cases.
Paying for board and lodging in one case.
Purchase of spectacles in one case.
Advertising for a job in one case.
Purchase of beds and bedding in 15 cases.
Paying for cost of household removals in 4 cases.
Payment of key money and rent in 3 cases.
Payment on furniture in 2 cases.
The Handicraft Class.
The Handicraft Class continues to do good work. Through
this class, an endeavour is made to bridge that difficult time the
interval between the return from Sanatorium and the return to
work. The ex-Service members of the class sent work to the
Armistice Week Exhibition at the Imperial Institute and found a
ready sale, particularly for hand-woven scarves and ladies handbags.
WILLIAM BRAND, Tuberculosis Officer.