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the year with no major changes. The types of cases we have
had to deal with have been mixed but the major problem
continues to be among the middle aged men who have difficulty
in re-establishing them selves in employment, particularly
where their previous work has been of the heavy unskilled
type. In the case of the younger patients, several months
off work may lead to difficulties for a time but in general
we have been able to give help which proved adequate to
resolve these difficulties and so to assist in a return to
the previous job or to other employment which might be more
suitable.
“The grocery voucher remains the most effective means of
general help to the family during the patient' s treatment
and rehabilitation and helps reduce that financial strain
which is inevitable when the breadwinner is off work for a
long period, and particularly where no wages are payable.
“Clothing has been provided for a nunber of patients and
the stock of bedding held in the Clinic has been available
for speedy issue as need arose.
‘We have continued our policy of helping patients and their
families with holidays both through the Health Departments
and through the Chest and Heart Association and believe
expenditure in this direction to be well worth-while.
‘The re-housing of several patients gave us a good deal of
pleasurable work and we are glad to record our thanks to the
Housing Department for their ready co operation.
‘Our Seal Sale Secretary has an increasingly difficult task
but it is the revenue from this source which finances our
work through the winter months and every effort must be made
to enlist local support for this, our only direct appeal for
funds.
Throughout the year we have received willing co-operation
from the officers of the National Assistance Board whose
sympathetic handling of the patients is much appreciated.
The Glasspool Trust have also given generous help to those
cases referred to them and in addition have made
contributions to assistance arranged by ourselves.