Fifth annual report
1932 1932 1930s 86 pages : illustrations capacity, and under her able guidance the Clinic area may be confidently expected to go ahead successfully in uniformity with the other District Committees. In the South-Western area the District Committee has been fortunate in securing the services of Colone...
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capacity, and under her able guidance the Clinic area may be confidently expected to go ahead successfully in uniformity with the other District Committees. In the South-Western area the District Committee has been fortunate in securing the services of Colonel Bastard, D.S.O., as its Chairman. This area suffers from the absence of any one centre equally convenient of access for the whole district. On the advice of the County Health Authority and others concerned with the existing Clinic at Tavistock, it was decided to move the Clinic, when D.A.C.A. took over, from Tavistock to Plymouth as being possibly more easily accessible generally. This is, however, found to create difficulties for patients from round Tavistock, and the re-opening of a Sub-Clinic at that place is now contemplated. The Trustees of Dame Hannah Rogers Hospital were good enough to facilitate the arrangements outlined above by placing the Hospital's beds at the disposal of D.A.C.A. and allowing the Association's Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr. Capener, to take charge of the patients sent there from his Clinics, while Mr. Kennedy continues in charge of those admitted from Kingsbridge. Since the arrangement came into force in July, 20 patients have been sent to Ivybridge by D.A.C.A., and the valuable co-operation of this Hospital is very greatly appreciated. The Plymouth and District Cripples Aid Committee are also most kindly collaborating with D.A.C.A. on the Training and Employment side, and thus all the organisations for cripple welfare in Devon are now working in close co-operation. In addition to the extension of its area, D.A.C.A. has been called upon to meet new demands upon its resources in a variety of other ways. The gradual expansion of public interest in, and appreciation of, the work done has led to very considerable increase in the number of cases brought to notice, and this has included a proportionate increase in the adult cases, of which the total was 230 as compared with 150 in 1931. These patients present a difficult problem from the financial point of view as they are not eligible for treatment at public expense in the same way as those under sixteen unless their condition is a tuberculous one. At the same time they are seldom in a position to pay more than a very small part of the treatment fee, and the care of them throws a continual strain on D.A.C.A.'s voluntary funds, both central and local. Public Assistance Committees contribute to some extent, and the Hospital Savings Association does so in respect of those patients who belong to it, while an increasing number of local contributory schemes are including D.A.C.A.'s treatment among their benefits. It is very much to be hoped that all such schemes will eventually do so. Physical disablement depriving the sufferer of his wage-earning capacity may be an even more shattering calamity for the adult than for the child, B 3
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