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and the amount of exposure to weather conditions
is carefully graduated. Undue exposure is, however,
harmful to rheumatic patients.
The Invalid Children's Aid Association combine
education with treatment under open air conditions
in their two homes for rheumatic children. The
Kurandai Home at Hartfield, Sussex, accommodates
50 children of both sexes, and the Edgar Lee Home
at Willesden is available for 22 boys. I am indebted
to Dr. Cotton, honorary consulting physician of the
latter home, for much information regarding the
campaign against heart diseases. The lease of the
Kurandai Home expires shortly, and a new home is
to be opened at West Wickham. The education of
these children is even more essential than that of
healthy children, as poor education involves laborious
work in adult life. In this connection it may be
mentioned that both of the Invalid Children's Aid
Association's Homes are certified as special schools.
Wards for rheumatic patients have also been opened
at St. Mary's Hospital, Broadstairs, and under the
Metropolitan Asylums Board at Queen Mary's Hospital,
Carshalton. Sixty beds are available at Carshalton,
where bacteriological research, as well as treatment,
is being done, and the number will be increased to
350 at a later date. The cases are admitted from the
out-patient departments of certain London hospitals
or on application to the Medical Officer of Health,
London County Council.
Cancer.
(Including Sarcoma and Carcinoma.)
Two hundred and sixty-two deaths were registered
in the Borough during 1926 as due to malignant
tumours, compared with 198 in 1925, 221 in 1924,
and 212 in 1923. Cancer caused more deaths than
any other disease in 1926.
The number of deaths occurring in males was 117,
and in females 145. Only three persons died under