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Committee includes members of the Borough Council and the Board of Guardians. Provision is
made for the medical examination of contacts and the visiting of patients in their homes, both by
the Medical Officers and by the Dispensary Nurses. Co-operation with the Public Health
Department and various voluntary agencies has been secured by the weekly meeting of Case
Committees, which are attended by representatives of voluntary societies and by the Council's Lady
Inspectors or Medical Officer of Health. At the end of the year the arrangement under which the
Dispensary in the Talbot Road served both Paddington and Kensington came to end. In future
Paddington alone will be served by the Talbot Road Dispensary. The Borough of Kensington
throughout the area lying north of the High Street will be provided for by the new Kensington
Tuberculosis Dispensary which has been established under the Kensington members of the old
combined committee, on new premises at 119, Ladbroke Grove.
The Board of Guardians.—Important work is carried out by the Board of Guardians in
the admission to the Infirmary of advanced and highly infectious cases of consumption. Wards are
set apart with accommodation for some 60 consumptives, and from the notifications received it
would appear that more than 170 phthisical patients were admitted from homes in Kensington
during the year. That many of these patients were in the last and most infectious stages of the
disease may be inferred from the fact that 66 deaths from phthisis occurred in the Infirmary during
the year.
The Insurance Committee. During the year 81 insured consumptives, of whom 51 were
men and 30 women, were sent from Kensington by the Insurance Committee for the County of
London to residential institutions for the treatment of consumption. Of those receiving residential
treatmen five died in the institution to which they had been sent or shortly after their return home.
Dispensary Schema of Council.- The Council's scheme for the Dispensary treatment of
patients at the Brompton Hospital and the Kensington Tuberculosis Dispensary has been approved
by the Local Government Board. Publications of the details will be deferred until the scheme in
its final form has been approved by the London County Council and agreed to by the institutions
concerned, and the Insurance Committee of the County of London.
CANCER.
Cancer caused 189 deaths, and of this number 168 occurred in persons over the age of 45
years. Carcinoma was the form of cancer to which 102 deaths were attributed; sarcoma was the
assigned cause of 11 deaths; 76 deaths were certified as due to cancer or malignant disease without
further definition.
The parts of the body which were affected in each case are shown in the following Table:—

The numbers following the description of the parts affected refer to the classification of causes
of death adopted by the Registrar General for use in England and Wales.