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yard, to secure a proper water supply and water closet accommodation,
to obtain a proper drainage of the yard, and to do away with
old and dilapidated vehicles of all kinds from being used as
dwellings.
UNEMPLOYMENT.
The amount of unemployment is on the decrease. As far as
can be ascertained unemployment does not seem to have exercised
any significant influence on the health or physique of children or
adults. This is probably due in part to the relief given by the
Public Assistance Committee and to the free supply of milk and
baby food given to necessitous cases attending the Child Welfare
and Ante-natal Clinics.
The infectious disease attack rate among the unemployed was
12.8 per 1,000, whilst the attack rate among the employed was 6.2
per 1,000. This does not prove, however, that the unemployed are
less resistant to infectious disease, but rather that the home conditions
of the unemployed are more favourable to the spread of an
infectious disease. In other words, there are usually more persons
per room in the houses of the unemployed than in those of the
employed.