Friendly visiting and partial enquiry (proof copy)
1902-02 1902 1900s 15 pages 8 About the usual proportion of cases has been referred to the Provident Medical Association and to Friendly Societies, but no returns have up to now been received. The decrease in the number of patients seen points to the continued absence of some of the regular helpe...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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February 1902
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| Summary: | 1902-02
1902
1900s
15 pages
8 About the usual proportion of cases has been referred to the Provident Medical Association and to Friendly Societies, but no returns have up to now been received. The decrease in the number of patients seen points to the continued absence of some of the regular helpers. The local Committees of the Charity Organisation Society have assisted twenty-four of our patients and have made enquiries into many cases. The Board may be interested to know that the assistance in one of these cases takes the satisfactory and substantial form of a permanent weekly allowance, raised for a worthy old nurse who is past her work. Similar help was arranged last year for a laundress suffering from heart disease. Twenty-seven patients paid the whole or part of the cost of their surgical appliances, while in five cases the Samaritan Fund supplied them. Considerable money help has been obtained from the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Funds and from employers, while the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants is helpful in finding suitable employment for many of our patients whose ill-health is the result of unhealthy work and surroundings. The neighbouring clergy are kind and courteous in giving information as to their parishioners, and helpful, through their visitors, in trying to get the doctor's orders carried out. July 13, 1901. (3) REPORT OF FOUR AND A HALF MONTHS' WORK, FROM JULY TO DECEMBER 1901. Number of patients interviewed, 3,263, being about 725 per month. Classification. Referred to Provident Medical Association 68 Referred to Sick Benefit Clubs 107 Referred to Poor Law 22 Sent away as able to pay for treatment 23 Fifty-six cases were referred to District Committees of the C.O.S., of which twenty-six cases were materially assisted, the Samaritan Fund contributing £26. 7s. 11d. towards the cost, while the C.O.S. raised £35. 13s. 7d. Of the remainder, six were sent for enquiry only, twelve did not apply and on being visited were found for the most part able to arrange their own difficulties, and twelve were refused assistance and left to the Poor Law.
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