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For non-pulmonary cases, i.e., those with disease of glands,
joints, etc., the same arrangements as in 1931 hold good, and the
same excellent results have been obtained.
The problem of treatment is by no means solved when the
patient has finished his period in sanatorium, even if the symptoms
have disappeared and his condition is quiescent. To maintain
his ground, he needs suitable and healthy work and housing accommodation,
both of which are difficult to secure at the present
time.
The Care Committee makes every effort to assist such cases,
but with a vast number of healthy people unemployed, it is hardly
to be expected that it will be possible to place satisfactorily those
known to be suffering from a disease universally regarded by employers
as incapacitating, and also probably as infectious. The
handicrafts class started three years ago has been a boon to many
people who find time hangs heavily on their hands. Miss K. H.
Russell, Secretary to the Care Committee, has been responsible for
the supervision of the class, except in so far as the actual technical
instruction is concerned, and it has been a considerable addition to her
otherwise heavy duties, but throughout the year the scheme has
been successful, both from the point of view of finance and of attendance
of patients. In September, Miss V. E. Hawkins, Assistant
Secretary to the Committee, sent in her resignation which was
accepted with great regret. Her valuable services have always
been greatly appreciated, and on her retirement she carries the
good wishes of all with whom she came into contact.
The foregoing remarks have for the most part concerned tuberculosis
as it occurs in the adult. In children, the disease tends
mainly to occur in non-pulmonary forms, and it is much more
amenable to treatment, which, though often prolonged and lasting
for several months or even years, ultimately in most cases secures
arrest or cure. Many of the children, on leaving sanatorium,
enter the Open-air School at Stormont House, on Hackney Downs,
where special attention is paid to diet, rest, and hygiene, and where