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On 31st July Memo. IV. was issued, dealing with Experimental
Cancer Research and of the broad conclusions, negative as well as
positive, which seem to be deducible up to now from the several
branches of this work.
During the year Conferences were held at the Town Hall
between representatives of the local division of the British Medical
Association and of the Public Health Committee. These representatives
were as follows :—
Councillors:—J. A. A. Atkin, R. H. Hobart Cust, m.a., j.p., and
J. C. Staines.
Doctors:— Sidney A. Boyd, D. H. Fraser, o.b.e., m.c., and
W. Stanley George.
At these Conferences the desire of the medical profession to
co-operate with the efforts of the Borough Council was manifest, and
at the suggestion of the Medical Officer of Health various matters of
interest were discussed, including inter alia:—
The question of disinfection.
The need for diagnostic aid to local practitioners.
The advisability of issuing leaflets and posters.
The question of the sufficiency of hospital beds for advanced cases.
The final recommendations of the Conference, endorsed by the
Public Health Committee, were approved by the Borough Council on
24th July. They were as follows : —
(1) re Disinfection or Destruction of Articles used by Cancer Patients:—
(a) That the Medical Officer of Health be authorised to offer
disinfection after all deaths from cancer.
(4) That it be left to the discretion of the Medical Officer of
Health as to whether the existing charges for this service
should be made in the case of the poorer residents of the
Borough.
(c) That when the bedding or clothing has been fouled by
discharge the residents be advised to allow such bedding
to be burned.
(2) re Propaganda.
(a) That propaganda work among medical men be left entirely
to the local profession to arrange.
(b) That propaganda work among the public at large be
commenced by the cautious distribution of a leaflet.