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The Committee work in close co-operation with the Invalid Children's
Aid Society, and the Secretaries of both Southwark Branches are members
of the Committee. This Society takes entire charge of the children's
cases, and also co-operates with the Tuberculosis Officer in aranging for
the removal of children of patients suffering from tuberculosis, to homes
under the London County Council Contact Scheme, for the purpose of
keeping them from infection, or to be cared for in their mother's absence.
The following societies helped and co-operated with the Committee
during the year, viz. :—
Soldiers and Sailors Help Society.
Charity Organisation Society.
United Service Fund and British Legion.
Invalid Kitchens for London.
National Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Society for Relief of Distress.
Friends of the Poor.
Red Cross Emergency Committee.
Queen Mary's Needlework Guild.
Southwark Diocesan Society for Social Welfare.
Royal Naval Benevolent Trust.
Various Regimental Societies obtained through Soldiers and
Sailors Help Society.
The housing problem is still acute in Southwark, but as the Borough
Council and the London County Council are both active in building flats
to let at moderate rents, some of our overcrowded families have been
enabled to move to better surroundings. The cost of moving the furniture
has on some occasions been met by help from Soldiers and Sailors Help
Society and the United Services Fund and British Legion.
Visits are paid to patients returning from hospital or sanatorium to
see if they require help and how they have got on, but we find it very
difficult to get them work if they cannot go back to their old employment.
A member of the Committee was recently able to help a boy with spinal
trouble, to get a good light job, and a rather troublesome girl was placed
in service through the Charity Organisation Society, and money advanced
for her clothes. The work problem, however, does remain a very serious
one.
W. STOTT,
Medical Officer of Health.