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From this Fund six destitute patients at sanatorium were sent small sums
of pocket-money.' Work was secured for two ex-patients through advertising
in a weekly journal, and a boy of fifteen whose father is in a sanatorium at
Lowestoft was enabled to spend his week's summer holiday there and visit
his father daily.
This boy intended cycling to Lowestoft and sleeping for two nights under
the hedges. This seemed a very unsuitable arrangement for a boy of fifteen
so we communicated with the matron of the hospital, and the wife of one of the
hospital orderlies agreed to give him board and lodging for a week for the
small sum of £l. This we paid for him, and by buying him a railway ticket
for part of the journey, he was able to cycle the rest of the way in a day. It
would have been quite impossible for his mother to pay anything towards
his expenses as she has seven dependent children and is in receipt of Public
Assistance. The father, who has been in hospital since March, 1934, and
cannot read or write, was greatly cheered by his boy's visit.
Now that there is no assessing of incomes to be done by the Care
Committee a great deal more actual Care and After Care work can be done
while we have in hand a small amount of money without which it is impossible
to help certain cases needing assistance which cannot be obtained through
other societies.
The attendance at the Handicraft class has been very satisfactory during
1935. 46 classes were held with an average attendance of 16. New cases
continue to come along to whom the class is a welcome means of passing some
of their enforced leisure.
Handicraft
Class.
In June a Jumble Sale was held to augment the funds, and at the stall
at the Health Week in October much of the work done during the year was
disposed of.
The work of the ex-service men was again sent to the Imperial Institute
Armistice Week Exhibition, and as in former years was practically all sold.
Many members of the Care Committee gave valuable help to the
secretary during the year and I would like to take this opportunity
of thanking them on behalf of the patients whom it has been possible to assist
through their generosity.