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SHOREDITCH TUBERCULOSIS FUND
Committee:
Councillor Mrs. M. Higgins (Chairman), Councillor Mrs. H. Alsford,
Miss D. F. Lee, Mrs. Salmon, Dr. C. K. Cullen.
Hon. Treasurer: R. Jones, Esq.
Secretary : Mrs. G. B. Green.
The fund is devoted to the following objects:—
1. To cover the expenses of the Handicraft Class.
2. To provide clothing and boots.
3. To assist with the removal expenses when better housing accommodation
has been obtained.
4. To pay arrears of National Health Insurance in order to entitle a patient
to benefit.
5. To pay fares for relatives to visit patients not more often than once in
three weeks.
6. To provide pocket-money in special cases to patients at sanatorium, such
pocket-money not to exceed 2s. weekly.
7. To assist, in certain special cases approved by the Tuberculosis Officer,
patients and/or their families in ways which are not specifically mentioned
in the preceding six clauses provided that the persons assisted are
ineligible to obtain such assistance from any other charitable organisation
or from the Public Assistance Committee, and provided that the members
of the Fund Committee are agreed that such assistance would be legitimately
supplied through a Fund of this nature.