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East Ham Tuberculosis After-Care Committee.
After-Care Committee.
The After-Care Committee, under the Chairmanship of Mr.
Alderman G. H. Manser, J.P., has continued to do excellent work
during the year. Its value in assisting necessitous cases makes
the scheme more effective.
Fifty-five patients have been provided with clothing and
bedding. This has enabled the patients concerned to sleep alone,
thus acting as a preventive measure to the healthy members of
the family.
To raise funds a Flag Day, which realised £9 14s. 5d., was
held in October, and two Dances showed a profit of £4 15s. 2d.
A collection on the West Ham Football Ground amounted to
£3 4s. 5d. Contribution boxes at the Harts Sanatorium and
Tuberculosis and Chest Clinic realised £10 0s. 8d. and 14s. lOd.
respectively.
As a result of the Musical and Dance Performance given by
Wells' pupils on Thursday, 15th November, 1934, a cheque for
£13 6s. 9d. was received.
Other patients have been helped by the provision of crutches,
spectacles, repairs to artificial limbs, and payment of removal
expenses. Part cost of funeral expenses was borne in the case
of a patient who died at Papworth Hall.
Handicraft Class.
It is hoped to commence handicraft classes in the new clinic.
Several patients are already looking forward to being, at any
rate, partially self supporting, and there is little doubt that this
factor alone will react favourably on their condition.
Dr. Philip Ellman reports as follows on the principal features
of the work at the Tuberculosis and Chest Clinic for 1934.
Statistical.
The number of primary notifications of tuberculosis during
the year 1934, was 258 as compared with 249 for 1933.
Of these primary notifications in 46.2 per cent. tubercle
bacilli were found in the sputum. In other words, 46.2 per cent.,