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Patients requiring surgical apparatus are referred to one
of the Voluntary Associations.
A Care Committee meets at fortnightly intervals to consider
cases.
No provision has been found practicable for the finding of
employment for T. B. patients.
Shelters are not provided by the Borough Council.
No special points as regards occupation have been noted.
The usual maximum incidence is found in the poorer and
more populated parts of the Borough. .
Housing difficulties still exist, and overcrowding obtains
in many instances.
EXHUMATION AND RE-INTERMENT OF BODIES.
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road.
During the year thirteen licences were granted by the
Secretary of State for the exhumation and removal of the
bodies of 15 persons from the catacombs or graves in St.
Mary's Cemetery.
Six of the bodies were reinterred in the Cemetery, 6
removed to Belgium, 2 removed to Valpariso, Chile, and 1
removed to Ireland.
The following conditions were attached to the licenses :—
(1) That the removal be effected with due care and
attention to decency early in the morning.
(2) That freshly made ground lime be freely sprinkled
over the coffin, the soil, or any matter that may be
offensive.