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The Care Committee has appointed Sub-Committees, one
of which (General Purposes) meets weekly, and the other
two (Finance and Grancher) when required. The full Committee
meets once every quarter and, having considered the
reports of the various Sub-Committees, reports to the Public
Health Committee of the Borough Council. The General
Purposes Sub-Committee deals with assessments of patients
for institutional treatment under the London County Council's
scheme, and with the assessment of patients who require
dental treatment under the Borough Council's scheme. It
also deals with general care work, provision of clothing, the
provision of domestic help in casfs where the mother is too ill
to attend to the home, and arranges for the loan of nursing
requisites, e.g., pillows, bed rests, etc. The Grancher SubCommittee
was constituted with a view to adopting the system
of boarding out the healthy child of parents suffering from
Tuberculosis. This scheme, which has been successful in
France, will probably require some alteration before it is
adapted to the English point of view, but, if it cannot be
adopted in its entirety, useful work can still be done by
boarding out children when the infection is greatest, or pending
the removal of an infected parent to an institution. Experience
has shown that if Care Committees are to discharge the
duties which have been imposed upon them, financial assist,
ance is necessary, as these Committees have to consider many
problems which involve financial assistance, directly or
indirectly. In many areas such assistance can be obtained
from voluntary sources, but, in others, where these sources
do not exist, Care Committees can only give wholesome
advice and deal with the fringe of the problem of the aftercare
of the tuberculous. No matter how willing and efficient
they are, they cannot do much more. At the present time
the only items of expenditure which rank for grant are postages,