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Relief Gratuitous. 17
The Mortlake Relief Committee, having for its object the prevention
of overlapping of Charitable and Poor Law Relief, and
deals with cases which ought not to be left to the Poor Law.
A Clothing Club, to encourage thrift by small weekly payments,
entitling contributors to an order for clothing plus a bonus.
There is also a Boot and Shoe Club run on similar lines.
A Coal Fund supplies coals in winter to poor families, who
subscribe during the summer.
A Friendly Society for Women, which entitles one class of
members to annuities at the age of 60 and another class to the
benefits of a medical club.
There are three almshouses in the Barnes and Mortlake
District, accommodating three to four old persons in each.
For this information I am indebted to the Rev. Horace
Monroe, Vicar of Mortlake
THE WAR AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
About 100 Belgian refugees are quartered in different parts
of the district, and many have been housed and provided for by
voluntary contributions.
The Barnes and Mortlake Patriotic Association has collected
a good sum of money, and has done good work in relieving distress
among those families where the wage earner has gone to the war.
This Association has made the district independent of the
Prince of Wales' Fund, but it is affiliated to the same.
Thirty-eight of the Council's employees have joined the colours,
but the Public Health Staff has not been affected.
Up to the present no case of infectious disease has occurred
among the Belgian refugees, and great pains have been taken to
secure sufficient sanitary living room and offices for them.
A large body of troops occupy the Ranelagh Club Grounds