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Occupational Therapy.
Remarkable enthusiasm exists among a certain selected group of
our patients, whose morale is particularly high; one can say as a
direct result of their increasing usefulness as citizens. Close contact
is kept with these patients, and they visit the Chest Clinic to receive
supplies and continue, in the majority of cases, the work they learnt
at the Sanatorium. The standard of work is so high that the demand
continues to exceed the supply. We aid the war effort by making
as many utility products as possible, bags (netting), baskete. etc.,
plus a certain amount of knitting, weaving, etc., for the Forces.
Thanks to the co-operation of the Technical College, shorthand and
typing instruction has been available for a number of our cases with
promising results.
The aim for these patients is to rehabilitate them through
sheltered workshops, where they can increase their working hours
in a group under medical supervision.
The Social, Economic and Psychological Aspects of Tuberculosis
.
As I stated in my last report, and it can bear repetition, the
value of keen and enthusiastic home visiting by competent tuberculosis
health visitors such as we now have available cannot be
over emphasised. This side of our work, to an increased extent, is
being carried out under the general direction of Sister Williams,
to whose untiring efforts and devotion I have previously paid tribute.
The results of the thorough and painstaking work of all three
Sisters has to be seen and experienced to be fully appreciated, and
no tribute can be too high for the quality of the work carried on by
them.
HARTS SANATORIUM.
Dr. Duff Palmer, the Medical Superintendent, was called to
the Forces, and Dr. Mary Belt n replaced him on the 2nd February,
1944.
Dr. Belton reports as follows:—
The chief feature of the year under review was the evacuation
of the male patients to Naburn L.C.C. Hospital, Yorks, on the 23rd
August. The Sanatorium had suffered blast damage from two
flying bombs, and the Government subsequently ordered the removal
of the patients and staff. The women were also to have gone, but
arrangements had not been completed when their removal was
cancelled owing to lack of suitable accommodation.