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most favourable mode of life to himself and of diminishing
the risk of infection of his relatives to the lowest
possible point, while the Sanitary Authority would disinfect
the rooms and take all such preventive and remedial
steps as lie in its power.
The notification however of Poor Law patients only
is quite insufficient. Not until the compulsory notification
of Pulmonary Tuberculosis shall have been made
general, and suitably equipped institutions for its treatment
rendered available to all recoverable cases will
adequate steps be practicable for checking the disease
effectually.
So long as slums exist, and the homes of the poor are
overcrowded, and a large percentage of working people
are insufficiently remunerated to enable them
to obtain sustenance necessary for themselves and
their families—so long will all attempts to eradicate the
disease certainly and utterly fail.
EDGAR TAUNTON, M.B.,
Deputy Medical Officer of Health
for Bethnal Green.
CANCER.
The various forms of cancerous disease caused 119
deaths, all the sufferers except two were over 25 years
of age. The estimated number of adults over this age
living in Bethnal Green is 57,300, on this number the
cancer mortality is at the rate of 2.0 per thousand.