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Having given careful consideration to the whole question and to the
representations made in the several communications which have been
addressed to the Managers on the subject from time to time during the past
two years, we have come to the conclusion that the question of the establishment
of sanatoria for consumptive patients is one which calls for an
authoritative expression of opinion on the part of the Local Government
Board. We accordingly recommend the Managers to adopt the following
resolution, viz.:-
That the Managers, having duly considered the question of the
proposed establishment of sanatoria for consumptive patients and the
letters received from the Local Government Board and the various
Metropolitan Local Authorities and Medical Officers of Health in regard
thereto, are of opinion that the matter is one of such vital and farreaching
importance to the community at large, and the proposal one
which, if adopted by the Managers, would entail so considerable an
extension of their duties and responsibilities, and so large an increase
in their expenditure, as to call for some authoritative expression of
opinion by the chief health authority of the country,' viz., the Local
Government Board, before the Managers are asked to take any definite
action in the matter or to make any further inquiries in regard thereto ;
and that the Local Government Board, the several Boards of Guardians,
the Borough Councils, and the Medical Officers of Health be so
informed. [Adopted].
(Signed) R. STRONG,
Chairman.
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
The deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive
of Phthisis, numbered 502, and formed twenty-one per cent of
the total mortality from all causes. This is equal to a rate of 3•8
per thousand population at all ages. Half the respiratory deaths
(252) were amongst young children, a mortality of 14'2 on the
estimated population under five.
MALIGNANT DISEASE.
Cancerous diseases caused 109 deaths, almost entirely amongst
persons aged over twenty-five years. The estimated number of
inhabitants of Bethnal Green aged over twenty-five years is
56,820, on this number we shew a cancer mortality of 1•86.