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lived several years in one tenement and that their families have naturally
increased without them being able to get more roomy accommodation.
Again, if a member of a family is known to have contracted consumption
there is a natural reluctance to letting rooms to that family on account
of infecting clean rooms and the necessary spraying and disinfection at
intervals, with stripping of walls on the removal of a case. Consequently
it- is doubly difficult, in a case of overcrowding to find other dwellings for
a family.
It is, under the circumstances, satisfactory to uote a decline in the
amount of tuberculosis in the Borough.
1 append tables giving statistics of the work done during the past
year.
I am, Sir and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
HORACE WILSON,
Tuberculosis Officer.