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cases recommended for institutional treatment under
the London County Council.
The Committee is composed of representatives
from the Public Assistance Committee, the Employment
Exchange, various voluntary organisations (Invalid
Children's Aid Association, Charity Organisation
Society, etc.), London County Council, and the Fulham
Borough Council. The Tuberculosis Officer acts as
Medical Adviser and the Clerk to the Dispensary as
Secretary.
Many thanks are due to the Invalid Children's Aid
Association for their great help during the past year,
especially as regards the provision of convalescent
home treatment for children, 25 of whom have been
sent away for several weeks' holiday through them.
In every case great benefit has resulted from the
change; and there is no doubt that in certain cases
the convalescence has been given at a critical time and
has prevented much ill-health in after life.
The Children's Country Holiday Fund, the Charity
Organisation Society and the United Services Fund
have also helped us considerably in different directions,
and to all these Societies I wish to express my great
appreciation.
The following are two specimen cases supplied by
Miss Sargent:—
A. was a civil engineer who came to the Dispensary after a period
of unemployment with savings exhausted and too ill to think
of work. The home was given up; he was sent to sanatorium
for prolonged treatment, while his wife found a post which
enabled her to support herself, but the income was wholly
insufficient on A's discharge.
A grant was obtained from the National Association for
the Prevention of Tuberculosis for immediate necessities; and,
with a great deal of persuasion, A. was induced to apply to a
Benevolent fund in connection with engineering, and was
given an allowance for a year.
Efforts, meanwhile, were made to find him suitable employment;
but the ideal job, so often in sight, never actually