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receiving throughout the whole of his sick life such care,
medical and social, as will give him the best chance of recovery,
and which, whether recovery be possible or not, will secure
comfort for him and protection against infection of all who
are associated with him. The Care Committee is able to
render very great assistance in attaining these objects and
during the year patients and their families have been helped
by the provision of clothing which every patient requires to
possess on admission to hospital and sanatorium ; by the
purchase of nursing requisites; by assistance in obtaining
expensive surgical apparatus; by supplementing financial
assistance given by a voluntary organisation for in.patient
treatment; or by boarding out non.tuberculous children
who are living in infected homes and who do not come
within the general county scheme, or in many other
smaller ways. During the year the Committee dealt with
694 cases.
The full Committee meets four times a year, but it
operates by means of sub.committees which meet periodically.
The principal sub.committee (the General Purposes and
Assessment Sub.Committee) meets weekly, on Wednesday,
at 11.30 a.m., and the other sub.committees as required.
The Council is only able to assist the Committee by the
provision of secretarial assistance and stationery, and it is
therefore necessary to appeal for voluntary aid to carry
on its very necessary work.
The income of the Committee, including £31 0s. 4d.
refunded by patients or their friends, amounted to £233 6s. 11d.
and the expenditure to £238 6s. 1d. In addition, a successful
Pound Day was organised at Christmas time and approximately
£120 in kind was distributed to tuberculous families.
The work of the Committee may be further illustrated by
the two following cases :—