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(6) Educational training by a short stay at a sanatorium, in which
beds are provided for the purpose by the City Council.
(7) Prolonged sanatorium treatment for patients in the Parishes of
St. Anne's and St. Mary's, through the St. Henry Trust (of which the
Medical Officer of health is ex officio a member); for Jewish cases,
through the Jewish Board of Guardians; for children, through the
Invalid Children's Aid Association; for some others, through the Charity
Organisation Society, and the various general and special hospitals
through their almoners.
(8) Convalescent homes, boarding-out treatment, and provision of
additional food for delicate children in consumptive families, and for
other susceptible or delicate persons, through various charitable agencies,
School Care Committees, &c.
(9) Homes for Advanced and Chronic Gases.—Arrangements are made
for admission of patients to suitable homes.
(10) Poor Law Provision.—The Guardians of the Strand and Westminster
Unions send their cases to the Central London Sick Asylum,
Hendon. Open-air treatment is given. There is a Children's ward to
which all children are at once transferred from Cleveland Street
Infirmary. Cleveland Street Infirmary retaining the cases which would
not be benefited by the Hendon treatment.
The Guardians of St. George's Union send cases to the Infirmary,
Fulham Eoad, where four wards are set apart for Phthisical patients.
All the three unions send children suffering from tuberculosis to
Rustington and to Carshalton.
(11) Provision is made, where necessary, of sputum flasks and
disinfectants, beds and bedding to enable the patients to sleep alone,
outdoor shelters, &c.
(12) Disinfection by the public health authority of rooms, bedding,
clothing, &c. after death, on change of address, or while patients are
temporarily away.
(13) Removal of insanitary conditions of dwellings and workplaces.
Diarrhiea.—The summer of 1911 was remarkable on account of
the dry hot weather experienced. Not only was a high level of temperature
reached, but it was maintained for a considerable period (from
early in July to the middle of September the thermometer was above
80 degrees on 42 days), a circumstance which is without parallel since
records have been kept. Fortunately, the nights were comparatively
cool, except on a few occasions; but in Westminster they were 3 or
4 degrees warmer than at outlying stations (such as Kew and Greenwich).
The maximum temperature exceeded 90 degrees on three days
in each of the months of July, August and September. The amount of