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whom patients are well acquainted, a Handicraft Class will be
fully successful.
We took into consideration the question of affiliation of the
Committee with the National Association for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis. The Association offers to affiliated bodies the
advantages of the Christmas Seal Sale, the right to use the double
red cross sign, literature at cost price, the special consideration
where necessary of individual cases requiring assistance that
cannot be adequately dealt with by local bodies, the right to send
a representative to the Association's Annual Conference, and we
accordingly made application and were duly affiliated to the
Association.
We were invited by the Association to participate in the
Association's Christmas Seal Sales Scheme. We found upon
enquiry that very considerable sums in aid of the Voluntary
Funds of Care Committees are obtained by the scheme, but in
view of other efforts in the Borough we decided that the addition
of this activity was impracticable.
We have continued our efforts to give or obtain assistance in
many cases of difficulty relating to such matters as National Health
and Unemployment Benefit, and the provision of housing accommodation
referred to us by the Tuberculosis Officer.
We append hereto a statement of the Voluntary Fund for
1937.
In conclusion we desire to record our appreciation of the
constant help we have received from Dr. Dunscombe, the Medical
Officer of Health, and from Dr. Brooke, the Tuberculosis Officer,
who has brought to our notice so many cases in which the
Committee has been able to render help. Also to Miss Prior, the
Tuberculosis Nurse and Visitor, and to Miss Cooper, representative
of the Invalid Children's Aid Association.
F. T. FOULGER,
Chairman.
E. Q. BILHAM,
Secretary.