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Such houses are usually of the non-parlour type, erected in
pairs.
The large bedroom is divided by a glazed sliding screen,
that a portion of the room can be utilised as an open sleeping cubicle,
with casement windows opening the full width of the room.
The houses are so placed that the sleeping cubicle overlooks
a large open space providing for a free current of air and the free
admission of sunlight—conditions similar to those existing in
sanatorium.
The extra cost of these houses, 26 of which have been erected
at Wakefield, is £20 per house.
It is unnecessary for me to stress the many advantages this
offers to the ex-sanatorium patient and the definite gain to public
health arising from less risk of infection to the family. From this
arrangement would result also the improved health of any members
of the family who may be in a pre-tubeicular condition.
In previous years I have called attention to the fact that the
Tuberculosis Register in Barking is misleading—that a large number
of names appear on its columns which need not be there.

It will be seen that, whereas we started the year with 737 on
the Register, we ended the year with only 592, in spite of the fact
that there has been a very considerable increase in population.