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The Care Committee, on behalf of the Borough Council,
undertake the making of assessments for contributions
in respect of dental treatment, and on behalf of the London
County Council in respect of hospital or sanatorium treatment.
They also deal with applications for grants of extra
nourishment. They deal with every new case attending
the Dispensary and do their best to ensure that he will receive
during his illness such care, medical and social, as will give
him the best chance of recovery. When necessary, they
help him to find employment after discharge from an institution.
The Committee works by means of its sub-committees,
the principal one of which—the General Purposes and Assessment
Sub-Committee—meets every Wednesday at 11.30
o'clock. The other sub-committees meet as required, and
all of them make special reports at the full meeting of the
Committee, which takes place quarterly.
The income of the Committee, including £4 17s. Od.
refunded by patients or their friends, amounted to
£298 3s. Id., and the expenditure to £250 10s. 2d. In
addition, a successful Pound Day was organized at Christmas
time and approximately £127 in kind was distributed to
tuberculous families.
During the year, the Committee dealt with 706 cases in
various ways, e.g., by the provision of clothing for necessitous
patients entering institutions; for the purchase of surgical
apparatus and nursing requisites; by supplementing financial
assistance given by the voluntary organizations for in-patient
treatment; by paying fares for varying periods in the case
of patients going to and from hospital for out-patient treatment,
and in many other ways.