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removal expenses for families that have obtained improved housing
accommodation, payment of laundry expenses for women patients who
are unfit to do this work themselves, and payment of health insurance
arrears to re-instate patients in benefit. Convalescent treatment has also
been provided and a useful piece of work undertaken during the summer
was the provision of short country or seaside holidays for certain chronic
or arrested cases who would not otherwise have been able to get away for
a change of air. 18 patients were able to benefit in this way.
The main income of the Poplar Tuberculosis Fund has again been
derived from contributions in respect of the Sunday opening of three local
Cinemas—the Poplar Hippodrome, the Poplar Pavilion and the Ideal
Picture Theatre—together with grants from Alexandra Rose Day Fund,
the Poplar Benevolent Society, the Prudential Approved Society, and
the National Deposit Friendly Society, and these grants have been
augmented by private subscriptions and donations and by the proceeds of
an entertainment kindly arranged by the Poplar Branch of Toc. H. and
a Sale organised by the Committee of the Fund. The Annual Report
and Balance Sheet of the Poplar Tuberculosis Fund is published at the end
of the financial year.
The Handicraft Class, an occupation centre for ex-sanatorium
patients, continues to meet weekly at the Dispensary under an instructress
provided by the London County Council. The class has 16 members, and
good attendances throughout the year have proved that it has been
appreciated. Goods made by members of the class were disposed of at an
Exhibition and Sale arranged by the Standing Conference of Metropolitan
Borough Tuberculosis Care Committees at the Carpenters' Hall in October,
at the Imperial Institute Armistice Exhibition in November, and at our
own Christmas Sale at the Dispensary. Specimens of the work done in
the class were also on view at the 20th Annual Conference of the National
Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis at the County Hall in July.
The Poplar Tuberculosis Care Committee is represented on the
Standing Conference of Metropolitan Borough Tuberculosis Care Committees
and three meetings of the Conference were attended during the
year.
The Poplar Tuberculosis Care Committee acknowledges with thanks
the assistance received from the various public authorities and charitable
agencies in the Borough and all those who have co-operated with it in the
work of the care of sufferers from tuberculosis.