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dwellings, arrangements have been made for furniture disinfestation by the
hydrocyanic gas method. This has been made practicable by an agreement with
the Council of the Royal Borough of Kensington. The procedure is that the
infested furniture is removed in the morning in a special type van and after disinfestation
is delivered in the evening of the same day at the new home. The
bedding is collected by the Council's staff treated in the steam disinfector and
delivered at the new home at approximately the same time as the furniture.
Where infestation occurs, the tenants are advised as to the remedies and
precautions to be adopted and warned of the risk of reinfestation from secondhand
furniture, etc. Information on these points is incorporated in a leaflet
which is left with tenants wherever necessary. A copy of this leaflet is left with
each tenant of the Council's flats periodically.
Cancer.
During the year 1938, 61 deaths were recorded as due to Cancer in comparison
with 66 in the previous year. The deaths in 1938 were equal to a rate of 1.77 per
thousand, the corresponding rate in 1937 being 1.81 per thousand.