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are therefore to be reckoned as considerably higher. It should be
remembered that a good many patients took their discharge
before completion of treatment, thereby reducing the possible
averages.
The Work of the Tuberculosis Care Committee.
Christmas Seal Sale 1936.
For the fourth year in succession a Christmas Seal Sale was
organised in Camberwell. The receipts were £387 5s. 4½d. and
the payments £72 16s. 8d., leaving a clear profit of £314 8s. 8s 8½d.
The profits of the Seal Sale have increased steadily each year.
This year thanks are due to the ladies of the Inner Circle of the
Rotary Club who addressed 5.000 envelopes—to the L.C.C. schools
in Camberwell who collected £45 7s. Id. —to five cinemas (Astoria,
Coronet, Golden Domes, New Grand Hall and Tower), who so
kindly showed free of charge a film advertising the Seal Sale —to
members of the Handicraft Class and their parents who helped to
make a card index of 5,800 names and addresses, and to all those
patients and friends who helped to sell the seals.
The Secretary of the Care Committee has compiled the following
figures and items of information in relation to some of its work in
1936:—
104 cases were helped in their applications to the Public Assistance
Committee. Thus patients received money, food, extra diet,
clothes, etc.
13 cases were assisted in their applications to the British Red
Cross Emergency Fund.
22 cases were assisted in their applications to the United
Services Fund.
The Care Committee assisted the London County Council in
making arrangements for the institutional treatment of 348 patients.
Efforts were made to settle all difficulties that threatened to bring
patients home from sanatoria too soon.
Co-operation took place with the Charity Organisation Society
in 7 cases, and with the Invalid Children's Aid Association in 70
cases.
The Committee co-operated with many families in which there
was a tuberculous member by endeavouring to obtain new homes
for them on the housing estates of the L.C.C. and elsewhere.
Patients were advised on questions concerning their employment.
Many patients were helped from private sources, for example,
in the way of the provision of clothing, boots, beds, etc.
To a large number of patients personal help in discussing
difficulties was given in addition to the above.