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60
were cases of respiratory disease and 12 were non-respiratory, this
is only three less than the previous year. Of the total number
remaining on the Clinic register at December 31st 1961, 50 produced
broncho pulmonary secretions positive for tubercle bacilli during
the year.
'In addition to the work at the Clinic centre in Walthamstow
there is a session each week at Chingford Hospital, where the total
attendances in 1961 were 300 (new cases 281).
'On March 17th 1962, the Clinic finally moved to a new building
at Whipps Cross Hospital where the service provided in the old
premises in the High Street will be maintained in full.'
WALTHAMSTOW AND CHINGFORD ASSOCIATION OF
TUBERCULOSIS CARE HELPERS
Miss V. Jennings, Honorary Secretary of the Walthamstow and
Chingford Association of Tuberculosis Care Helpers reports as
follows
At the Annual Meeting of the Association in May 1961, we
amended our Constitution to enable us to give help to patients
suffering from chest conditions other than tuberculosis.
The decision to do this was not reached without serious thought,
particularly as the County Council were not prepared to agree to
our using for these patients any monies derived from County Council
grants. It was therefore necessary for us to establish a separate
fund, and assistance to non-tuberculous patients was, of necessity,
limited by the money available in that fund. We decided that, in
general, we should give help with warm clothing bedding and fuel
during the winter months and if possible, with holidays where these
were recommended by the Chest Physician.
Long-term help of the kind given to tuberculous patients by
means of grocery vouchers etc., would not be possible without the
certainty of a substantial income to this fund.
A beginning has been made and it is hoped that in the not too
distant future it may be possible to offer these other patients the
full range of help now given to the tuberculous.