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Homework was not carried on in the home of any case
notified.
Of the houses occupied by the patients, five were used for
the sale or preparation of food products, one was also a milk
shop.
It is very unfortunate and most undesirable that these consumptive patients should have to do with the handling or manufacture of articles for human consumption. There is not, however, at present, any practical method of preventing or otherwise
satisfactorily dealing with their employment in such occupations.
A sanitary survey was made of every tenement, and the
nuisances found were made the subject of subsequent notice and
amendment. The following defects were ascertained:—Rooms
dirty 17, water closet choked 3, manhole cover broken 2, roof
leaky 3, dustbin absent 2, sink waste pipe broken 1, washhouse
dirty 1, flooring broken 3, yard paving broken 2, water closet
flush pipe broken 1, water closet with insufficient flush 1.
The patient's bedroom.—The number of beds in the
patient's bedroom, the number of persons occupying the patient's
bedroom, and the number of families affected are given in the
attached table:—