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Report of Miss Lewellin.
Secretary of the Tuberculosis Care Committee.
A further year's work has been added to the Care Committee's
record which we hope has not diminished its prestige.
With each succeeding year we become more widely recognised and,
we think, our usefulness more appreciated, our work merges closely
into other local organisations and we feel part of a great whole that is
working for the betterment of our Deptford people. We are afraid
that these societies consider us inveterate beggars, but they are so
universally good to us that we can only conclude that they consider us
deserving. Our thanks are due to them all. The British Legion,
The Red Cross Society, The United Services Fund, The Charity
Organisation Society, The Invalid Children's Aid Society, The Mayor's
Fund and the Rotary Club have all helped us during the past year;
also, in addition, valuable aid has been rendered by the School Care
Committees in connection with our children's cases. The Board of
Guardians, too, has co-operated with us and helped us in many difficulties
that could be solved by no other body. The wise, kindly and
practical advice of the Clerk to the Guardians has always been at
our service in these difficult and special problems.
Although our reports can vary little from year to year, we welcome
the opportunity of letting you know a little more about our work, of
asking for your help and support, and of reminding you that we are
still wanting, working and hoping for developments that will in the
future make the great white scourge an evil of the past. We meet
each year the same perplexities and troubles which have been dealt
with in detail in our previous reports and which we do our best to
help. The means of help are added to, slowly certainly, but surely
too, we hope.
We can report at least, one definite step forward, a cherished
project of the Care Committee has this year come into being, namely,
a Handicraft Class. In our report for the year 1926 we mentioned
this as a possibility. Now it is an established fact. A report of this
interesting development will be found elsewhere, and we trust that
the perusal of it will enlist the sympathy and support of our readers.
During the past year we have operated from the new Health Centre
in Harton Street, where our work has been carried out amid comfortable
and congenial surroundings.
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