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I have received the following report from Miss L. Ashe, Hon.
Organiser
TUBERCULOSIS CARE COMMITTEE.
In presenting our Report for 1937, we feel we must mention the great
event which occurred last September in the opening of the new Health
Services Department in Walworth Road. It concerns this Committee
inasmuch as it deals with the same people, who now have facilities available
to receive the most up-to-date treatment combined with every
comfort and convenience while waiting for it. It contains a spacious,
airy, up-to-date Tuberculosis Dispensary.
The Tuberculosis Care Committee have continued with little change.
It consists of the Tuberculosis Officer, three nurses from the Dispensary,
two representatives of the Borough Council, two of the Public Assistance
Committee, and the remainder represent the various social and charitable
organisations in Southwark. We meet weekly, and the Committee is a
live one, thie cases being well known to many of its members, who are
also encouraged to bring up special cases which have come to their notice
for help and advice.
Our work is to act as supplement to the medical services of the
Borough; to see that no one under their care is suffering privation, and,
when the patient is in hospital or sanatorium, do everything possible to
ensure that his or her family is cared for so as not to cause anxiety for
their welfare.
The funds available for use by the Committee are too small to carry
out schemes of help, so that much of our work consists of interesting
various charitable agencies and getting them to render the substantial
assistance needed. During 1937, 201 appeals were made, either personally
or by letter, to 26 agencies and individuals, viz :—
Our Own Tuberculosis Care Committee.
The Charity Organisation Society.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society.
British Legion and United Services Fund.
Queen Mary's Needlework Guild.
Invalid Kitchens for London.
Society for Relief of Distress.
Friends of the Poor.
National Society for Prevention of Tuberculosis.
National Union of Printers and Bookbinders.
Actors' Benevolent Society.
Red Cross Emergency Committee.
Charing Cross Hospital Benevolent Fund.
John Bull War Sufferers Fund.