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boundaries. The medical supervision of its elementary school
children is in the hands of another authority. Its civic self-consciousness
is in these ways discouraged from developing an appreciation
of special local disease problems, apart from those of the
infectious diseases.
But through its Maternity and Child Welfare Committee it is
definitely concerned in seeking to control mortality and morbidity
of children under five, and of expectant and nursing mothers. In
this endeavour, as gauged by those in touch with the young
children of the Borough, it has achieved some success.
And as an area containing a larger proportion than the average
of old persons, it has an especial interest in the diseases of older
age, of which Cancer, as a disease in part at least preventable, must
demand attention.
The residents of Stoke Newington, within easy reach of many of
the most skilful medical men and the best equipped hospitals in the
world, cannot complain of lack of opportunities for diagnosis and
treatment, so far, at least as they are now available in this country.
The responsibility lies on them to take advantage of those facilities:
and to inform them upon the latest information now available
about cancer, the Public Health Committee have arranged for a
Public Lecture to be given by Prof. H. R. Kenwood, C.M.G., early
in 1928. Comment upon this is reserved for the 1928 Report.