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SHOREDITCH TUBERCULOSIS CARE COMMITTEE, 1938
Councillor Mrs. H. Alsford St. Leonard's Hospital Committee"
Mrs. Angel Public Assistance Committee.
Mrs. Anstey (from May) Local social worker.
Councillor Mrs. E. F. Bamford Public Health Committee.
Miss A. Broomfield Invalid Children's Aid Association.
Dr. C. K. Cullen Tuberculosis Officer.
Mrs. A. M. Ellett (from February) Local social worker.
Sister M. K. Gilroy Tuberculosis visitor.
Councillor Mrs. H. Girling, O.B.E., J.P., L.C.C. Local social worker.
Sister A. A. Grange Tuberculosis visitor.
Councillor Mrs. M. Higgins (Chairman) Public Health Committee.
Dr. Margaret Hogarth Divisional Medical Officer.
Mrs. Hotten (from February) Local social worker.
Miss D. F. Lee District Nursing Association.
Mrs. Lock Local social worker.
Miss G. Murch District Organiser, School Care
Committee.
Miss Parsell London Insurance Committee.
Dr. E. H. R. Smithard Medical Officer of Health.
Mrs. Turner (from September) Local social worker.
Secretary Mrs. G. B. Green.
(d) SHOREDITCH TUBERCULOSIS FUND
Committee:
Councillor Mrs. M. Higgins (Chairman), Councillors Mrs. H. Alsford & Mrs. E. F. Bamford,
Dr. C. K. Cullen, Mrs. A. M. Ellett, Miss D. F. Lee.
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 six 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.