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from her (which means that he has considerably less pocket money).
There is a new understanding in the home which makes for increased
happiness.
These are only a few of the many cases we have been privileged to
help. We have had a very fair share of space and generous as our
M.O.H. is, we must not encroach further. We would like to express
our regret that he will not be here to call us to order next year. The
Care Committee will lose a friend, and what the friendship and
co-operation of the M.O.H. means to a Care Committee, well, this
perhaps only a Care Committee worker can fully realize. We will
simply say that we shall miss him, and we wish him well in his new
and important work. Many more elaborate compliments will be paid
to him, but not any more real.
B. Lewellin.
Our Tuberculosis Handicraft Centre.
Report by Miss E. Malcolm Forth, Instructress.
Reports, apparently favourable, of the work done in my evening
institute class at Morden Terrace, Lewisham, came to the ears of a
member of the Borough of Lewisham Tuberculosis Care Committee.
During recent years the arts and crafts movement has been quietly
growing in importance, and the work done in the London County
Council classes counts for much more, artistically speaking, than the
mild "handwork" that used to be recommended for them.
So that when the member of committee came to see me I was able
to show her some sound work, and to tell her that she could use the
London County Council organisation to commence what seems to have
been a dream of some years among borough tuberculosis workers, the
use of handicrafts as a curative treatment for their patients.
I was glad that 1 was able to take the first class of the kind,
because my experience during the war, when I was prescribed as a
treatment for shell-shock cases, and the number of my students since
who have told me that they have come to my classes because of a
doctor's advice, to take their minds off themselves and their nervous