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The Ranyard Nursing Association, the Benson Nursing Association
and the Institute of Trained Nurses of Our Lady of Consolation, have
very willingly carried out home nursing to bedridden patients who were
either unwilling to enter an Institution, or who were too ill to be removed
to a Hospital.
In the case of patients whose homes have suitable yards or gardens'
shelters can be lent if the patient so desires. Under this arrangement the
patient is able to live and sleep in the open air, and, at the same time,
if there is overcrowding in the home, the use of a shelter is a very useful
means of alleviating such overcrowding. Owing to the district being
thickly populated, however, the use of Shelters cannot very often be
employed.
Patients requiring an extra bedstead, but who are unable to afford
this added expense, can be loaned a bedstead from the Dispensary. In
many cases this allows the patient to sleep alone even though the room
may, under difficult housing accommodation, have to be shared with
another member of the family.
TUBERCULOSIS CARE COMMITTEE.
The objects and aims of the Tuberculosis Care Committee were
fully reported in my Annual Report for 1937.
During the year a considerable amount of valuable work has been
done for the benefit of Southwark tuberculous patients and their
dependants, and I should again like to express my thanks to the following
organisations for their very valuable assistance in providing help in
this work:—
The Charity Organisation Society,
Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society,
British Legion and United Services Fund,
Red Cross Emergency Committee,
Friends of the Poor,
Invalid Kitchens for London,
Society of St. Patrick,
Musicians' Benevolent Fund.
Rockingham Estate Office,
and the following Regimental Societies
Royal Air Force,
Royal Lancashire Regiment,
Wiltshire Regiment Benevolent Fund,
Shropshire Regiment,
and several individuals. In addition my thanks are due to the Public
Assistance Committee for the courteous attention which it has given to
the cases referred to them.