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The Secretary interviewed 1,479 patients and the following
is a list of the types of assistance given and the number
of patients assisted by the Committee : —
Type of Assistance. Number.
of patients.
Clothing ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 77
Pocket money while in hospital ... ... ... ... 14
Wireless: repair, rental and licences ... ... ... 4
Fares of relatives to distant sanatoria ... ... ... 36
Taxi fare ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3
Holiday for patient ... ... ... ... ... ... 1
Household removals ... ... ... ... ... ... 3
Loan of bedside comforts ... ... ... ... ... 101
Loan of beds ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 36
Supply of bedding ... ... ... ... ... ...59
Supply of towels ... ... ... ... ... ... 5
Loan of jig-saw puzzles and books ... ... ... 291
Hire purchase payments ... ... ... ... ... ... 6
Payment of insurance premium ... ... ... ... 1
Fees for correspondence courses ... ... ... ... 3
Purchase of a deck chair ... ... ... ... ... 1
Payment for spectacles ... ... ... ... ... 1
The National Assistance Board is able to help financially
in some cases. In certain circumstances they can also give
additional monies for clothing, bedding, fares and hire purchase
payments. After investigation the Secretary referred 240
patients to the Board.
Most of the cases which the Committee considered were
referred by the medical staff and health visitors of the Chest
Clinic and various voluntary organisations.
The Committee participated in the Christmas Seal Sale and
it is by the generous response, mainly on the part of the people
of Camberwell, that the Committee is able to continue its work
of alleviating hardship for those suffering from tuberculosis.
Camberwell again collected the highest amount of money
throughout the Metropolitan Boroughs in the Christmas Seal
Sale for the year ended 31st March, 1952. It is pleasing to
record that just after the close of this year the target of £1,000
was reached.
The Committee is indebted to the London County Council
for a further grant of £30 from the proceeds of the Sunday
Cinematograph entertainments.
The handicraft class continued to meet each Friday from
2-4 p.m. There was a Roll of 20 students with an average attendance
of 13. Of the students who left the class one became fit
for work, two moved from the Borough, three became medically
unfit and two resigned for domestic reasons.
One of our students had a particularly successful year. In
March he was awarded the first prize—a silver engraved cupin
the competitive section at the Maidstone Model Engineering
Society Exhibition for a hand-made calf handbag exhibited by the