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Care Committee. The Care Committee's work has
been carried along the same lines as in former years.
195 cases wore considered, and of those 65 needed
assistance through the Committee's voluntary fund.
This would not have been available without the
support givon to the Christmas Seal Sale appeal, which
has now bocomo well known and is the chief source of
the Committoc's fund. The 1947 appeal met with the
greatest response yet, and £S36 was roccivcd from the
sale of the greetings scals.
Pocket money whilst at sanatorium, roplacoments
of warm clothing, and faros for relatives to visit
patients away at sanatorium for long periods continue
to make the greatest demand on tho Committoo's fund;,
but during the year assistance has also been given in
several other ways, help being granted towards the
cost of holidays, removal expenses paid for patients
obtaining badly needed improved housing accommodation,
and grants towards the cost of floor coverings for
now homes otc.
Four patients doing handicraft work at home have
been helped with the cost of materials. The Welfare
Department of the British Red Cross Society have helped
all those pensioners and ex-servicemen referred to them,
and the Invalid Kitchens have continued to supply
dinners to several patients.
The Committee's work is likely to increase when
the now Health Act comes into force, as the Government
Tuberculosis maintenance allowance scheme will then
come to an end, and although the scales of sickness
bonofit will be increased, many of our patients will
be less well provided for than they arc under the
presont arrangement, which includes a rent allowance
for married patients.
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