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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Owing to an extension of the areas to be visited weekly, the occupational therapist
now spends only part of one day a week visiting in the Dagenham area. In spite of this
there were 431 visits made as compared with 359 last year.
The value of materials issued was approximately £80. Completed articles were
sold at the Town Show and in November, a sale of work organised by the Dagenham
Tuberculosis After-Care Association resulted in a further successful effort to sell work
made by patients. At the Thompson Road Clinic there have been steady sales throughout
the year from the show case which was installed at the close of 1959.
There may appear to be undue emphasis on the sale of completed articles, but one
must be realistic and patients in the Dagenham area cannot all afford to give away or
even to keep their completed work. Most of the money realised from the sales goes
towards buying more materials, or enables a patient to make something for himself or
his family without depleting the housekeeping purse.