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The Tuberculosis Care Committee. The work of
the Tuberculosis Care Committee, which is a purely
voluntary association, covers a very wide field and is,
generally speaking, concerned with the social welfare
of patients and their dependants during treatment both
at sanatorium and on their return home. The satisfactory
employment of tuberculous individuals is always
one of considerable difficulty to ensure both from the
physical and economic standpoint, and the energies of
the Care Committee are greatly appreciated in this as
in other directions.
I would like to thank the Chairman, Secretary and
the other members for their valuable assistance in 1929.
To illustrate the wide scope of assistance rendered
by the Committee, the Secretary, Miss Sargent, has
selected a number of different cases which are here
appended:—
A. was discharged from Sanatorium in the spring of
1929 with a good report but not quite fit to take up work
immediately. After two months' rest at home he was
eager to start work but his previous occupation was
not a very suitable one for him, and he wished instead to
get taken on as an Insurance Agent. He made all the
necessary enquiries himself, and then came to the Care
Committee to ask if they could help him to raise the
required £50 deposit to enable him to buy a "Book." It
took some time to find the money but it was finally
obtained, the National Association for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis making a considerable grant towards it as a
loan: and in September A. definitely started work. He
has kept steadily at it since then, and when last examined
in June, 1930, was maintaining his health and had gained
somewhat in weight.
B. was the over-worked mother of one of our patients.
Her first husband died of tuberculosis and ore of her
children is a notified case. She herself was examined as
a "contact" and found to be very run down and badly in
need of change. As she was non-tubercular, the Charity
Organisation Society were asked to help and she was sent
to Birchington-on-Sea for several weeks, whence she
returned very much better and having gained considerably
in weight.