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No definite arrangements for the provision of nursing
exists, but advantage is taken of the services of the District
Nursing Association in cases where home nursing is required.
Patients requiring surgical apparatus are referred to one
of the Voluntary Associations.
No provision has been found practicable for the finding of
employment for T.B. patients.
Application was made to the Borough Council by a patient
who had just returned from a sanatorium for a chalet to enable
him to carry out the open-air treatment in his back garden.
The Council purchased one and granted the loan of it to him,
and excellent use has been made of it.
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 continues
in many instances.
CANCER.
During the year the Ministry of Health issued a further
circular known as Cancer V for the guidance of Local
Authorities supplementing the information contained in the
circulars known as Cancer I, Cancer II, Cancer III,
Cancer IV.
Cancer V relates to cancer of the breast, and the results of
surgical operation in connection with this condition.
It supplements the information already given in Cancer
III, by incorporating additional and more exact data which
has since been obtained.
This has established the previous conclusions on a firmer
basis of fact, and has demonstrated that the results secured
by complete operation at an early stage are even better, in
terms of length of subsequent healthy life, than had been
demonstrated.
Intensive efforts on a wide scale are now being devoted to
the search for the cause or causes of malignant disease, and
it is earnestly hoped that they will result in furnishing
humanity with some direct means of controlling the disease
through the application of preventive measures.
Cancer caused 217 deaths. Carcinoma was the form of
Cancer to which 188 deaths were attributed; sarcoma and
epithelioma were assigned cause of 12 deaths; 17 deaths were
certified as due to cancer or malignant disease without further
definition.