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"light work"—which they can seldom obtain—would have an opportunity
of attending for three or four days weekly. They should then
be enabled to produce saleable articles which would provide them with
a small weekly income.
There are, therefore, indications for the establishment of a central
organisation for handicrafts work for tuberculous patients in London.
It should be concerned with London as a whole rather than with
individual Boroughs. A number of centres for instruction could be
established, to include, particularly, workshops for woodwork.
In one London Borough, where a skilled voluntary worker gives
his services as a woodwork instructor, the patients, in the space of
a few months, are producing articles which are readily saleable in the
open market at a satisfactory profit. It is difficult in any one Borough
to find a sufficient number o,f patients who have a natural aptitude
for work of this nature. The solution lies in the setting-up of a
number of centres for both sexes in different parts of London, each
one serving a group of Boroughs. The finished articles could be displayed
in a West-end shop entirely devoted to the sale of handicrafts.
Tuberculosis Care Committee.
The Borough Council makes a grant of £110 per annum towards
the administrative expenses of the voluntary Care Committee, and is
refpresented upon it by Mr. Alderman H. Baily, M.B.E., Councillor
Mr. Sidney Boyd, M.S., F.R.C.S., Councillor Mrs. F. Cayford, Councillor
Mrs. M. F. Dow, M.A., and Councillor Mr. S. B. Morgan.
The Secretary of the Committee is Miss M. Talbot Kelly, 73,
Dynham Road, N.W.6. The Committee keeps in touch with the
families of patients who are receiving institutional treatment, and their
conditions and prospects receive consideration upon discharge.
Details, supplied by the Secretary of the Committee, of the workcarried
out by the Committee during the year are tabulated below :—
Cases reviewed 261
New cases (included in above) 88
Interviews with patients by Care Committee
Secretary :—
(a) At homes of patients 84
(b) Otherwise 912