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A perusal of the above list will show that many patients were
living under very unsatisfactory sanitary conditions, and
illustrates the need that exists for the recurring, the unceasing
inspection of house property in poorer districts. Not infrequently
the detects discovered are due to the occupants themselves. On
the other hand, in the slums, there is much property, old and
weathered, becoming worn out and subject to continued patching.
The repairs when completed are not of a substantial character,
and dilapidations are quickly apt to recur. The work when
effected is known popularly as a "hospital job." There is
often no well considered preventive effort.
The Streets.—The number of notifications of phthisis during
the years 1904-1911 from whole streets, and the number of streets
affected in 1912, the number of deaths in these streets from 1904
to 1911, and the number of streets in which deaths occurred in
1912, are indicated in the table given below:—

From this table it will be seen that fresh streets are being
invaded, and that the disease is tending to spread into streets
and parts of the Borough hitherto unaffected. In 1912, notifications
were received from 20 streets in which there had been no
previous notifications, and deaths occurred in 21 streets in which
there had been no previous deaths from phthisis.