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SHOREDITCH TUBERCULOSIS CARE COMMITTEE.
I am grateful to Miss Guest, the Secretary, for the following report of Care
Work for the year ended 31st December, 1958•
"Members of Care Committee.
Councillor F.G. Aldred, (Chairman) Shoreditch Borough Council
Miss R. Glennie, (Vice Chairman) Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Assn.
Mrs. H. Alsford,
Dr. B. Broadbent, Medical Officer of Health, Shoreditch.
Mrs. W.G. Dibble, Women's Voluntaiy Service.
Councillor Mrs. L.S. Calfe, Hackney & Stoke Newington Tuberculosis
Care Committee.
The Almoner, St. Leonard's Hospital.
Dr. S. King, Divisional Medical Officer, London
County Council.
Miss M.W. Sweeney, Superintendent, Shoreditch and Bethnal
Green District Nursing Associatioi
Councillor J. Temple, L.C.C. Divisional Health Committee.
Miss M. Turnbull, Invalid Children's Aid Association.
Ex Officio.
Dr. C.K. Cullen (and later Dr. W.F. Richards) Chest Physician.
Miss M. Nutt, Tuberculosis Health Visitor.
Mrs. D.E. McLean, Tuberculosis Health Visitor.
Miss E.B. Guest, Secretary.
Retirement of Dr. C.K. Cullen.
It was with great regret that this Committee heard of the retirement in
June 1958, of Dr. C.K. Cullen, who had for so many years been the Chest Physician
at Shoreditch Chest Clinic, first under the Shoreditch Borough Council and then
under the Hospital Service and the London County Council combined. Many were the
tributes paid to Dr. Cullen, who had done such great work and fought so hard, both
medically and socially, for the welfare of tuberculous patients and their families.
The Committee welcomed Dr. W.F. Richards, Consultant Chest Physician, of
Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, who was appointed Chest Physician to this clinic in
June, 1958.
In Januaiy, a new Occupational Therapist, Miss L. Ogbourn, was appointed to
teach patients various handicrafts, both in the home and at a weekly class held
at this clinic. Miss Ogbourn visited, under the supervision of the Stepney,
Metropolitan and Shoreditch Chest Clinics, patients who were confined to their
homes, and also supervised the weekly class, consisting of patients from the
Metropolitan and Shoreditch Clinics. The number of these patients averaged twelve
at the beginning of the year but decreased in numbers during 1958, as patients
improved in health and went back to work.
This Committee is affiliated to the National Association for the Prevention
of Tuberculosis, which recently changed its title to "The Chest and Heart
Association" The Association has decided to dissociate itself from the 1959/60
Appeal for tuberculous patients, concentrating on an appeal for sufferers from
other chest diseases, with a separate Christmas Seal, under its new title. This