View report page

91
It must be somewhat difficult to realise the nature of the work
these figures represent, and it is equally difficult for us to enlighten
readers to any appreciable extent, in a brief report.
Among other things, we assisted a tuberculous girl and her
widowed mother to remove to a cottage in the country. Regular
help has been obtained for a number of families to maintain their
homes during a patient's absence. Grants for nourishments for
delicate members of a patient's family have been procured.
Separate beds have been supplied. Children have been boarded
out. For a lonely girl, without any means, in a sanatorium, a
friend was found, who wrote to, and sent her pocket money
monthly : and this year particularly, the need for grants of
clothing and boots has been urgent. This want we have, with
the aid of our many friends and the Mayor's Distress Fund, met
to a large extent.
We do not wish to leave the impression that the Care Committee
limits its work to assessments and material help. We
have no limitations, and it is therefore difficult to define our
activities. We can only sum up our work by stating that we
endeavour to deal with any difficulty, trouble, or emergency that
may affect the lives of our people, and act as a connecting link
between them and other sources of help—and this as an aid to
treatment.
Looking back over the year we feel that we can say "Although
we have not been able to do as much as we wanted—we have
done what we could."