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Health Visiting
The London County Council provided 2 full time Tuberculosis Health
Visitors working from the Chest Clinic at St. Francis' Hospital to cover duties in
the South Lambeth area and 3,900 visits were made to patients' homes during the
year.
Welfare
The needs of most patients were met by National Insurance and National
Assistance with whose officers close liaison was maintained. As necessary;
however, extra nourishment was provided by the London County Council on the
Chest Physician's recommendation and 42 patients were supplied with milk,
butter and eggs in kind. In necessitous cases and where there was special
urgent need, help was given from the Chest Clinic Samaritan Fund supported by
the Mayor of Lambeth, under the chairmanship of the Consultant Chest Physician.
The day to day administration of the fund and care of patients' welfare continued
to be the responsibility of the Chest Physician's Secretary, who is also Secretary
to the Samaritan Fund Committee and during the year assistance was given to 140
patients.