Cites Albert E. Hambledon
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RESETTLEMENT OF PARAPLEGIC.

Mr. A.E. Hambledon,

262, Willesden Lane, N.W.2.

 

On receipt of your first minute of 7th March, Mr. Hambledon was visited at his home the next day. He was assisted from the garden by a young man who pushed him in his wheel chair up a ramp and into the living room. It is very clear that Mr. Hambledon has little chance of ever being employed outside his home. Even there he admits getting tired when seated in his invalid chair and has to be assisted into bed to rest his back. While I was with him he drank water frequently from a jug and explained that copious drinking was necessary to keep his kidneys working.

Home working of some kind is the need here. I made arrangements for a firm's representative to call and see Mr. Hambledon, but he did not go and an enquiry I made to the firm revealed that materials scarcity was given as the reason.

Mr. Hambledon has been in touch with the British Red Cross Society with a view to getting assistance towards the purchase of welding equipment. I arranged for the district T.O. to visit him to give him any assistance required in the way of advice and information on likely employers who he (Mr. Hambledon) might contact for work. A copy of the T.Os. report is enclosed.

Mr. Hambledon is not one of the eligible categories for a resettlement grant but it is possible that an exception would be made in his case, if he provided evidence that work was available and that he could do it.

He has twice called at the Exchange in connection with the proposed welding work and is to call again when he has further explored its possibilities.'