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100
Patients 11
Attendances 21
Extractions 43
Four patients were given general anaesthetics, and four patients local
anaesthetics.
Report of the Secretary to the Tuberculosis Care Committee.
The Poplar Tuberculosis Care Committee continues to meet monthly
at the Dispensary to deal with matters affecting the welfare of persons
suffering from tuberculosis. The home conditions and financial circumstances
of every new case of tuberculosis are reported to the Committee—
provided that the patient or person responsible has first given his or her
consent—and the Committee endeavours to arrange for the provision of
any assistance that may be required. Old cases in which some special
need arises are also referred to the Committee as they occur.
Eleven meetings of the Tuberculosis Care Committee were held
during 1937 and 186 individual cases were considered, about one-third
of these being in need of some kind of practical help. This was obtained,
when possible, through other agencies, i.e., the London County Council,
the Public Assistance Committee, the Unemployment Assistance Board,
etc., and the various societies represented on the Care Committee have
co-operated very helpfully, but in the majority of cases the necessary
assistance has been given by the Care Committee's voluntary fund, the
Poplar Tuberculosis Fund.
The Committee of the Poplar Tuberculosis Fund has met 11 times
during the year and has dealt with 150 applications for help. Clothing
and boots have been provided in 80 cases, fares paid for relatives to
visit patients away in sanatorium on 32 occasions, and 20 destitute
persons undergoing institutional treatment have been given small pocket
money allowances. Other assistance given by the Fund has included
the provision of convalescence, dentures and surgical appliances, the
payment of removal expenses when improved housing accommodation
has been obtained, the provision of wireless for bed-ridden patients, etc.
The income of the Poplar Tuberculosis Fund is raised by voluntary
effort. We have been fortunate in continuing to receive contributions in