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On the social side also improvement may be recorded. The Care
Committee has shown increasing keenness and efficiency since first
appointed by the Council in 1920, and is now fully representative of
the various agencies likely to be of service to patients and their
families, so that whatever help is possible within the limits of its
powers is forthcoming.
The addition to the dispensary staff of a salaried officer especially
for "care work" and to act as secretary to the Care Committee, has
greatly facilitated the organisation and carrying out of the social side
of the work.
The recently increased facilities for the removal of children from
infected homes through the medium of the Invalid Children's Aid Association
should prove of considerable value from the point of view of
prevention.
A general increase in the efficiency of the dispensary service during
the past five years may, I think, fairly be claimed.

W. C. P. SMITH,
Tuberculosis Officer.