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57
Number of cases attending the Dispensary
who received a course of sanatorium
treatment during the year 53
Total number of visits paid by Health Visitors
to T.B. patients in their homes . 427
After-Care Committee for Tubercular Patients.
This Committee works in conjunction with the
Health Department, and was inaugurated in 1928, the
Secretary being a member of the clerical staff of the
Department.
Eight cases were referred for assistance during the
year as follows:
(1) Domestic assistance required, but all help was
refused.
(2) Two cases referred for light work to be obtained
for them.
(3) Assistance was given towards fares for husband
to visit his wife in sanatorium.
(4) One case was referred for extra nourishment,
which was subsequently assisted by the
Guardians.
(5) Assistance towards nursing a patient who was
eventually admitted to Farnborough Hospital.
(6) Help was given towards obtaining the necessary
outfit for a boy to go to sanatorium.
(7) General assistance was given towards providing
extra nourishment and food.
Propaganda.
Public Health is taught daily at the Clinics and
Centres, individual instruction, as well as mass instruction,
by means of talks and demonstrations given by the
^aff, but there is no propaganda in the form of pamphlets,
bulletins or journals.
A useful extension of propaganda carried out by
Miss E. B. Crowe, Health Visitor, was the Mothercraft