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General Workers' Union.
Rockingham Estate Office.
North Lambeth Approved Society.
St. Patrick's Benevolent Society.
Royal Air Force Memorial Fund.
Queens R. Regiment Old Comrades Association.
Royal Field Artillery War Commemoration Fund.
East Surrey Regiment Old Comrades Association, and several
individuals.
The Committee work in close co-operation with the Invalid Children's
Aid Society, who take entire charge of our children's oases, and cooperate
with our Tuberculosis Officer in arranging for the removal of
children of patients suffering from tuberculosis to homes under the
London County Council Contact Scheme, to keep them free from infection,
or to be cared for in their mother's absence.
Members of our Committee were very busy on Queen Alexandra Rose
Day. Our Chairman (Mrs. E. Saunders) had a depot, and she and
helpers collected a record sum. We wish heartily to thank the Fund
for its continued help in sending us a donation of £10.
Special thanks are due to Queen Mary's Needlework Guild who have
again sent us a parcel of really useful and tasteful articles—just what
are wanted for people in sanatorium, or returned from them unable to
work. One mother said, on seeing what we had provided her daughter
with, " It looks more like a wedding trousseau than a hospital outfit."
We are very grateful for the support given by the Mayor and
Councillor Mr. C. J. Mills, who contributed £15 to the joint fund of the
Handicraft Centre and the Tuberculosis Care Committee. Our Hon.
Organiser was fortunate this year in selling £20 of her sketches.
Now what we do with all this money in addition to the help obtained
from the societies mentioned.
We have many destitute men and a few women who have no National
Insurance, or who have run out of it; Women whose husbands are out
of work, and all they have is needed for keeping up the home, or young
boys and girls whose parents are in too poor circumstances to send them
anything. All these would have a sad time in hospitals and sanatoria
without a little pocket-money—it makes all the difference. To enable
them to take their part in what is going on, and to keep themselves in
cigarettes, stamps, newspapers, etc. We are at present sending pocketmoney
to 28 patients, and with the exception of 7 cases helped by some
of the agencies we have appealed to, the rest comes from our Tuberculosis