Report by the Chief Tuberculosis Officer of the West Riding County Council and the Clerk to the West Riding Insurance Committee upon sanitorum benefits for the period from July, 1912 to April, 1921 / the Insurance Committee of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

  • West Riding of Yorkshire (England). Insurance Committee
Date:
1921
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Credit: Report by the Chief Tuberculosis Officer of the West Riding County Council and the Clerk to the West Riding Insurance Committee upon sanitorum benefits for the period from July, 1912 to April, 1921 / the Insurance Committee of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    After-Care of Tuberculous Persons. In March, 1914, the Insurance Committee called the attention of District Committees to the value of. after-care work, which might be said to begin when Institutional treatment ends. Dis¬ trict Committees were asked to act as After-Care Committees or to appoint members of an After-Care Committee and the circular issued set out a statement prepared by Dr. Kaye, the County Medical Officer, with regard to the duties devolving upon an After-Care Committee. But the work actually done by many of the District Insurance Committees will never be fully recorded. Many individual members of these Committees interested them¬ selves in patients quite apart from any obligation to do so as members of the Committees. No record has been kept of the help, advice and assistance which have been given in this way, but the Insurance Committee are aware that after-care work of a more or less extensive nature has been carried out by at least twelve District Committees. The co-operation between the Committees and the District Tuberculosis Officers has, in many cases, been a close one and to the benefit, not only of the patient, but of the community at large. Some of the District Insurance Committees were, in fact, After-Care Committees in all but name, and the disappear¬ ance of this unit from the Tuberculosis Scheme leaves a gap which will not be filled efficiently for some time to come. Ancillary Treatment. The Insurance Committee decided to allow District Com mittees to expend moneys on providing extra nourishment for tuberculous persons when recommended therefor by the District Tuberculosis Officers or insurance practitioners as part of the treatment. The value of the extra nourishment provided has varied from time to time as has also the income limit which the Committee have specified for insured persons who were to be entitled to participate therein. The following schedule shows the variations which have been made under this heading, viz. :— Weekly value of Income limit of Date. extra nourishment. insured person. Commencing os. Od. None. 26-8-13 os. Od. 6s. Od. per head provided total income does not exceed £1. 20-11-13 5s. Od. 5s. Od. per head or 25s. Od. per week. 17-6-15 6s. Od. Do. 23-11-16 7s. 6d. 5s. Od. per head or 25s. Od. per week. 20-9-17 7s. 6d. 7s. Od. per head or 35s. Od. per week. 1-11-17 8s. 6d. Do. 24-10-18 10s. Od. Do.
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