Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons.

  • Great Britain. Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons
Date:
1946
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Credit: Report of the Standing Committee on the Rehabilitation and Resettlement of Disabled Persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TUBERCULOSIS (PARAS. 27—28 AND 62) 7. Towards the end of April 1943 the Health Departments issned comprehensive memoranda on Tuberculosis to Local Tuberculosis Authorities, dealing in particular with examination and diagnosis, treatment and welfare. With the object of encouraging persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis to seek early treatment in their own interests and in the interests of the public health and the national effort, a scheme of main- tenance allowances during the treatment is now in operation, expenditure on which is reimbursed to Tuberculosis Authorities by the Exchequer. The memoranda draw attention to the recommendation regarding the develop- ment of rehabilitation measures and the provision of employment in sanatoria. Arrangements have been made for close collaboration between the Tuberculosis Authorities and the Local Offices of the Ministry of Labour and National Service in finding employment under suitably adjusted conditions for the individual when he is adjudged fit to undertake it. This scheme gives effect to the general proposals of the Tomlinson Report in respect of employment. The arrangements made by the Health Depart- ments with Local Authorities are regarded as satisfactory having regard to existing staff difficulties, although they have been more successful with regard to obtaining part-time employment for tuberculous persons than in the provision of rehabilitation measures. The problem of employment of the tuberculous is mainly one of employment under special (or sheltered) conditions and it is, therefore, being given special consideration by the Disabled Persons Employment Corporation under Section 15 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1944. The question is also being kept under regular review by the National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled. PROVISION OF HEARING AID CLINICS AND OF HEARING AIDS AND LIP READING INSTRUCTION FOR THE DEAF (PARAS. 31, 99 AND 100) 8. It was not possible during the war to establish hearing aid clinics and to arrange for the proper provision of hearing aids—on the lines recom- tion Departments and the Ministry of Pensions in conjunction with outside experts to see whether anything of a preliminary nature could be initiated for development after the war. As a first step the matter was referred to the Medical Research Council, who appointed a Committee to advise and assist the Council in promoting research into electro-acoustical problems relating to the design and application of instruments in the alleviation of deafness. As a result it was announced on the 5th June, 1946, on behalf of the Government that a new and efficient hearing aid had been designed by the Electro-Acoustics Committee of the Medical Research Council. The that Service will provide for any necessary treatment of deafness, for the scientific assessment of the need for the hearing aid, and for the provision of the aid itself, with service and néw batteries as required. A charge will be made only for-repair or replacement made necessary by damage due to the carelessness of the user. Jn the period before the new Health Service comes into operation, every effort will be made to secure that the new aid is produced and made available under existing powers and through the present specialist, diagnostic and treatment services. The production of being made in the British Factories for the disabled under the auspices of the Disabled Persons Employment Corporation is being explored. In recard to lip reading there is no evidence of any extensive demand for [32643 | o* 2 ?.
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