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(xvii.) Special difficulties encountered.
The difficulty which in normal times is encountered in finding suitable
employment for tuberculous patients becomes almost an impossibility
in these days of widespread unemployment.
The reluctance of many cases of advanced disease to enter the PoorLaw
Infirmary continues to be one of the chief difficulties in dealing with
this type of case.
The practical impossibility of improving unsatisfactory home
conditions or of securing better accommodation elsewhere for the affected
family results from the existing shortage of houses.