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as the work is very simple and the instructors have been mainly
concerned with calling at intervals to deliver materials and give
advice on how to improve the standard of work. An instruction
leaflet is supplied with each loom and could quite well be used
without further instruction by most patients.
No record of the work of the Association would be complete
without very sincere acknowledgement of the good work done by
the Chairman, Members and the Officers of the Association, both
during the past year and the previous years of even greater financial
stringency.
The following summary of the arrangements made in regard to
the prevention of tuberculosis, the care and after care of those
suffering from tuberculosis has been supplied by the County
Medical Officer.
Under the provisions of the National Health Service Act, 1946,
the County Council has wide responsibilities in regard to the
prevention of Tuberculosis, and the care and after-care of persons
suffering from that disease. In this connection the following
facilities are made available throughout the County:—
(a) Propaganda directed towards the prevention of tuberculosis
is undertaken in a variety of ways, e.g., lectures, film shows,
exhibitions, and the County Council co-operate with the Regional
Hospital Board in connection with the Board's mass radiography
units ;
(b) Visits are made, and advice given, by the County Council's
Health and Tuberculosis Visitors;
(c) Sickroom equipment is loaned to persons who are being
nursed at home;
(d) Open-air shelters are provided free of charge on loan for
assisting patients to segregate themselves as much as possible from
other members of the family, and to take advantage of the open
air;
(e) Extra milk is provided free of charge when this might
assist the patient's recovery;
(f) Rehabilitation is provided free of charge at one of the
Village Settlements in suitable cases;
(g) Boarding-out with foster parents is arranged for children
who are in close contact with a member of the family who is
infectious;