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Work of the Tuberculosis Care Committee.
The Secretary, Miss B. Lewellin, has kindly furnished me with the
following Report upon the work of the Care Committee:—
Reviewing the work of the Tuberculosis Care Committee
during the past year, a noticeable feature is the fact that we have
received a very generous response to our appeals for help, chiefly
from our local charitable organisations and public social services.
All these may indeed be termed "friendly societies" in so far as
we are concerned. We have worked in co-operation with the
Red Cross Society, the British Legion and the United Services
Fund Local Committee, the Charity Organisation Society, the
Invalid Children's Aid Association, the Mayor's Fund, the Rotary
Club, the Board of Guardians and the Children's School Care
Committees, also a few outside societies have been approached
successfully. Our first duty, which is a very great pleasure, is
to tender our thanks to them. The financial and other assistance
we obtain from these societies is practically the framework
on which Care Committee work is built. To be effective we
must remove whatever difficulty we find obstructing the path of
medical treatment. Advice and sympathy are helpful, but quite
often our advice our people could not follow unless backed by
financial aid, and our sympathy comfort little unless we alter the
state of things that move our pity, where we have the power to.
171 cases have been recommended for institutional treatment
during the year. These have received individual attention from
the Care Committee. Where there have been difficulties in the
way which might have prevented patients accepting treatment,
an endeavour has been made to solve them. It is seldom that a
solution cannot be found. Amongst these is a girl who has been
admitted to Papworth Colony with a view to eventual settlement.
From reports received she is well and happy and hopes later to
become a self-supporting settler, following her normal occupation,
i.e., clerical work.
Two others, boys, have been admitted to Burrow Hill
Training Colony which the National Association for the Prevention
of Tuberculosis has adapted with a view to providing suitable
accommodation for youths from 14 to 19 years of age, who
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