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Patients requiring surgical apparatus are referred to one
of the Voluntary Associations.
No provision has been found practicable for the finding
of employment for patients suffering from Tuberculosis.
No special points as regards occupation have been noted.
The maximum incidence of tuberculosis is tending to
change from the more congested parts of the Borough, to
the new estate areas. The reasons for this are twofold :—
(1) The rents of the new estates are higher, and the
added requirements of better environment leave less
money for food—an indication that nutrition is of
more importance than housing.
(2) Preferential consideration for housing in the new
estates is given on the grounds of ill-health, and
particularly for tuberculosis, therefore one finds the
influx of a population of already diminished resistance
and a percentage of tuberculous patients from
this and other Boroughs.
PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
Blind Persons Act, 1920.
It was not found necessary to refer any case of blindness
to the London County Council under the scheme for the
education and training of the blind.
EXHUMATION AND RE-INTERMENT OF
BODIES.
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road.
During the year licences were granted by the Secretary
of State for the exhumation and removal of the bodies of
two persons from the catacombs or graves in St. Mary's
Cemetery.
One body was forthwith removed to Golders Green for
the purpose of cremation, and one body was re-interred
in St. Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green.
The following conditions were attached to the
licences:—
(1) That the removal be effected with due care and
attention to decency early in the morning.