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Thirteen families have removed from the district during the year. Seven of
these received preferential treatment under the L. C. C. Housing Scheme; five
were accommodated on the Watling Estate, and two on the Downham Estate.
Two families were referred to the Care Committees of other Boroughs on their
removal, but unfortunately there is no care Committee operating at Burnt Oak.
One family that had removed to the Watling Estate was referred to, and received
assistance from the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. One
family, tenants of the L. C. C., obtained better accommodation within the Borough.
Twenty-three patients known to the Committee have died during the year.
Of these, 8 died in L. C. C. Institutions, 6 in the Guardians' Hospital, 4 in other
Hospitals or Homes, and 5 in their own homes.
Convalescence has been arranged in 7 cases—3 through the Invalid Children's
Aid Association, and 4 through Stafford's Charity. Three of the latter were relatives
who had been in close, attendance on patients in an advanced stage of
tuberculosis. One child was sent away through the L. C. C. Contact Scheme.
A vacancy was obtained at St. Michael's Home, Axbridge, for a patient who
had no home or relatives, and was discharged unfit for work after a year's treatment
tinder the Tuberculosis Scheme of the L. C. C.
It is pleasing to be able to report that our efforts have attained some measure
of success in at least one case. A young man, aged 24, was discharged from the
Royal Navy on account of tuberculosis after 9 years' service. He was awarded a
gratuity of £21. Following representations made, the Admiralty awarded a
special pension of £18. 5s. Od. per annum from the charitable funds of the Greenwich
Hospital; subsequently, on further consideration, this was replaced by a
temporary disablement pension of £86. 5s. Od. per annum. On completion of
sanatorium treatment, through the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust, a course of
instruction was provided for the man at the Royal Naval School of Motoring. The
family was living under unsatisfactory conditions in Holborn, but as a result of
a request to the London County Council, housing accommodation was provided for
this man and his family on the Watling Estate.
We were less successful in the ease of a Petty Officer, discharged with tuberculosis
from the Navy after 15 years' service. He had been stationed in South
Africa for two years, and just arrived home in time to see his mother and die. He
had made a regular allotment to his widowed mother, who is in receipt of the Old
Age Pension and has no other child. The man had an excellent service record, and
was a Physical Instructor. His father had also been a Petty Officer in the Navy.
The Admiralty refused to accept any liability in this case, and all efforts to obtain
a pension or allowance for the mother failed.
The half-yearly meetings of the Standing Conference of City and Metropolitan
Borough Tuberculosis Care Committees were held in June and November, and
there was also a special meeting in March. The Committee was represented at
all the meetings.
Early in January the Ministry of Health held a Public enquiry into the
(Holborn and St. Pancras) Town Planning Scheme, No. 5. In connection with
that it was unanimously resolved:—
"That this Committee wishes to associate itself with efforts to preserve
the Foundling Hospital Site as an Open Space."