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The following items will show how part of the Christmas Seal
Fund was spent: —
Pocket money to 20 more or less destitute patients while they
were receiving treatment at a sanatorium.
Clothing to 28 patients.
Mothers' Help in the case of 2 patients while awaiting sanatorium
treatment or as a convalescent measure for a short period
after leaving the sanatorium.
Payment of fares in 25 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 12 cases.
Payment of arrears of National Health Insurance stamps in
4 cases.
Board and lodging in one case.
Purchase of spectacles in one case.
Purchase of beds and bedding in 15 cases.
Paying for cost of household removals in 9 cases
Payment of key money and rent in 8 cases.
Handicraft Class.
The Handicraft Class meets at the Tuberculosis Dispensary
on Friday afternoons from 2 - 4. On June 24th and 25th a combined
sale was held at Carpenters' Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, by kind
permission of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters. Twelve of
the London Tuberculosis Dispensary Handicraft classes took part.
The sale was opened on the first day by H.R.H. Princess Alice,
Countess of Athlone, and on the second day by the Marchioness
of Titchfield. The Camberwell class made £36 7s. 4d. by sales and
took orders to the amount of £4 13s. Od.
WILLIAM BRAND, Tuberculosis Officer.