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(Hoxton House), Miss Murch (District Organizer of Children's Care Committees),
Miss Miller (C.O.S.), P. Rockliff, Esq. (Tabernacle House), Miss
Tucker (East End Workers amongst the Poor), Miss Wragge (Maurice
Hostel), and the Hon. Secretary, Miss Sutton Sharpe.
A new committee was elected and began work in April, consisting of the
following members: —
Chairman, Miss Wragge (Maurice Hostel); Vice-Chairman, Councillor
Mrs. D. Thurtle; Miss Broomfieid (I.C.A.A.), Dr. Cullen (Tuberculosis
Officer), Councillor Mrs. Ellwood, Her Worship the Mayor Mrs. H. Girling,
Sister Grange (Tuberculosis Visitor), Mrs. Higgins, Sister Hiscoke
(Tuberculosis Visitor), Mrs. Ingham (Local P.A.C.), Miss Lee (Shoreditch
and Bethnal Green District Nursing Association), Dr. Kelleher (St.
Leonard's Hospital), Dr. Lewis (Hoxton House), Miss Murch (District
Organizer of Children's Care Committees), Dr. Maitland Radford (M.O.H.),
Councillor Mr. Reed, Councillor Mrs. Smith, and the Hon. Secretary, Miss
Sutton Sharpe.
The opening of the new Shoreditch Dispensary at 145, Great Cambridge
Street this year has made a great change in the Tuberculosis Care Committee
work. There is now an office for the Secretary at the Dispensary, and the
Committee meetings and handicraft class can be held there also.
This makes the work much easier and more efficient, close co-operation
with the Dispensary staff saves a great deal of time and prevents a duplication
of visiting. All non-medical work can be handed over without delay to
the Tuberculosis Care Committee, and the "care" side of tuberculosis work
in the Borough sometimes can be begun as soon as the case is known to the
Dispensary. The Secretary being at the Dispensary makes it possible for
patients and patients' relatives to find her easily in any emergency, and
emergencies do arise which bring almost destitution in their train.
The "care" work is very varied—it divides itself into three parts. The
necessary arrangements for getting the patient to sanatorium treatment,
which includes suitable clothing and inquiry into the income and sickness
benefit. Then there is the family of the patient to be considered, and adequate
arrangements made for them to "carry on" in as healthy a way as is
possible. And last and most difficult there is the patient and the family to be
considered as a whole when the patient is again living at home.
In two cases of young men returning from Sanatoria this year the Committee
have been very successful, one having entered the printing trade and
become interested in his work, and the other having secured a regular job in
" clock work ". Though we have had very generous co-operation from our
local Labour Exchange, the difficulty of getting patients back into work
remains very great in these days.
When the mother of a family has to go away for a long period of treatment,
the care of the children is often a very difficult problem and one where
the father is grateful for advice and help. In one family the mother had to