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Committee will "be sending out its usual appeal and has decided, in an endeavour
to keep down the heavy woiking costs, to send only to former contributors of the
Seal Sale, hoping thus that the net amount next year will, at any rate, not be
reduced.
Although helping tuberculous patients still remains our primary aim, the
Committee also help other cases, such as sufferers from bronchitis and asthma.
Many cases of lung cancer are also supervised at this clinic and financial help
obtained from the National Society of Cancer Relief, which is paid to patients
from here at regular intervals.
Last year our expenditure exceeded income by £16. The net amount received
through the 1958/59 Christmas Seal Sale was £173 (which v/as somewhat less than
last year); from the United Charities of St. Leonard's £17.10. 0 and from the
Shoreditch Rotaiy Club £5. 0. 0.
When making the annual grant from the Sunday Cinema Entertainments Fund, the
London County Council, in administering the fund, took into consideration the
increased responsibilities of the Committee on account of the extra calls upon
it because of the increase in the territory supervised by Shoreditch Chest Clinic.
Although, as the County Council pointed out, the money available for distribution
is decreasing each year, because of the extra calls on our fund now that part of
Hacknqy is included in our area, the allocation made to us (i.e.£40) was the
same as before, whereas to many other applicants the amount of the grant had been
reduced.
As usual, the largest inroad into our fund was made by fares for relatives
to visit patients in Sanatoria, and during the year the Committee decided that
fares should be paid twice monthly (instead of once) to hospitals and sanatoria
outside London.
The Committee also increased the scope of the Christmas gifts - giving £30.
to help elderly patients and £20. for toys for children whose parents could not
afford to give them. Also at Christmas, the Mayor of Shoreditch gave cash gifts
to some of our elderly patients, for which we were very grateful.
The Committee wish to express thanks for the various grants - particularly
through the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Association, the Forces Help Society
and the Mayor of Shoreditch Fund - which, with help from other voluntaiy societies,
all so quickly and generously given, added greatly to the comfort and recovery of
our patients."