Report of Council : 43rd / National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (Great Britain).

  • National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (Great Britain)
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[1941]
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    Quotations of some of the children’s essays are interesting :— ‘Stand Up and Breathe ”’ was rather a helpful film, and if everyone who sees this film takes its sound advice, there will be hundreds of complaints less each year. Flat chests, round shoulders, and a shambling walk can be remedied by sitting, standing and breathing properly.” ‘“* These film programmes are an excellent idea, and more of them should be seen in Britain, they teach us much more about the subject than if a person was talking. He cannot show you movable diagrams, or germs, etc., in real life, but on the films this is possible. So I think that more of these ‘ Health’ programmes should be shown at cinemas all over the country, so that everyone, including grown-ups, should see the necessity of good health.” During the year over 40,000 persons saw the films projected by the Association’s cinema unit. BURROW HILL SANATORIUM COLONY The Burrow Hill Colony has now been open for the cure and training of tuberculous boys for 13 years, and during this time has a record of success. The Association is indebted to the Local Authorities and their Medical Officers for their support in sending patients, and we believe the facilities of the Colony have proved a valuable opportunity for this special class of patients. The war has rather interrupted the training scheme. It is, nowadays, so easy for youths to obtain well-paid employment that they are only too ready to postpone treatment, especially in the early stages of the disease, where perhaps they do not feel very ill. The Council has, therefore, enlarged the scope of the Colony and some adult patients.are now taken in. During the year extensive repairs and renova- tions have been undertaken, and the Colony is equipped and ready to carry on its work with undiminished efficiency. For some years the spiritual work has been carried out by the Vicar of Frimley, the Rey. J. W. Partridge, and the Association is much indebted to him, and the keen and sympathetic interest of Mr. Isdell Carpenter, Curate of Frimley, who have conducted the services and given hours of help and encouragement to the patients. It seemed to the Council that better provision should be made for the services which had hitherto been held in the recreation room. A chapel has now been constructed in one of the Colony buildings, and the gifts for the furnishing have been made through the generosity of individual members of the Council and friends of the Colony. This new departure will help the spiritual life of the patients, and will provide a back- ground that is so necessary for boys at this impressionable period of life. The Chapel will be dedicated by the Bishop of Guildford in the summer of 1942. NURSE COMMISSIONERS The Nurse Commissioners Scheme in Scotland has now been running for some eleven years, and is believed to be one of the most satisfactory pieces of work for which the Association is responsible. One observer, who speaks with unique authority on the Highlands of Scotland, has said that the Nurse Commissioners Scheme is the best piece of work that has ever been done in these areas towards the prevention of tuberculosis. The Advisory Committee, which, under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Mrs. Stirling of Keir, a member of our Council, controls this work, decided that the time had come for an approach to the Department of Health for Scotland, reporting the work that had been done in the previous ten years, and asking for recognition in future. This matter is now before the Department.