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private house, and, with but one exception, in all cases the facilities which
she offered have been taken advantage of. A letter was addressed to
every medical practitioner and to all nursing homes, asking that when
Cancer patients are removed from their homes, the relatives might be
informed that the Council will, free of charge, disinfect rooms or destroy
bedding. Although in the opinion of those who have given careful
attention to the question, the infectivity of Cancer has not been
definitely established, I deem it to be a wise precaution to destroy all
articles fouled by discharge in these cases, and to subject the rooms
occupied by fatal cases to disinfection, and clothing, etc., used by them
to proper disinfection and cleansing or to destruction.
Deaths from Violence (excluding Suicide).
28 deaths were classified under this heading, as compared with 15
in 1924.
The causes of death were as follows:—10 to being injured by
motor vehicles, 10 to falls, 1 to drowning, 1 to burns (clothing catching
fire), 2 to asphyxia, 1 to being crushed by trench wall giving way, 1 to
scalds in bath, and 2 to other injuries.
Suicide.
15 persons committed suicide, as compared with 10 in 1924.
The causes of death were as follows: — Gas poisoning, 3; drugs, 4;
under train, 3; fall from window, 2; cut throat, 1; shooting with
pistol, 1; suffocation (cord round neck), 1.
Section 2.
General Provision of Health Services in the
Borough.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Borough Council or by
the London County Council.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
Within the last few years, the following hospitals have been
subsidised by the Borough Council for maternity and child welfare
work.
Queen Charlotte's Hospital. A subscription of £1 for every
Hampstead mother confined in that Institution; the Council receiving