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Arrangements exist for the provision of Finsen Light treatment,
and artificial pneumothorax. Seventeen attendances
were made at the West London Hospital for the purpose of
the latter.
Tuberculin is not administered.
No opinion can be expressed on the relative value of the
various forms of treatment.
The Council has made provision in the estimates for the
expenditure for Dental treatment for tuberculous patients.
No definite arrangements for the provision of nursing
exists, but advantage is taken of the services of the District
Nursing Association in cases where home nursing is required.
Patients requiring surgical apparatus are referred to one
of the Voluntary Associations.
No provision has been found practicable for the finding of
employment for patients suffering from Tuberculosis.
Application was made to the Borough Council by a patient
who had just returned from a sanatorium for a chalet to enable
him to carry out the open-air treatment in his back garden.
The Council purchased one and granted the loan of it to him,
and excellent use has been made of it.
No special points as regards occupation have been noted.
The usual maximum incidence is found in the poorer and
more congested parts of the Borough.
Housing difficulties still exist, and overcrowding continues
in many instances.
EXHUMATION AND RE-INTERMENT OF BODIES.
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road.
During the year licences were granted by the Secretary
of State for the exhumation and removal of the bodies of
nine persons from the catacombs or graves in St. Mary's
Cemetery.
Two of the bodies were re-interred in St. Mary's Cemetery,
Harrow Road, one was removed to Peru for re-interment, two
were re-interred in the Terrace Catacomb, St. Mary's Cemetery,
Kensal Green, one was removed for re-interment at
Mount Vernon Cemetery, Liberton, Edinburgh, and one was
removed to France for re-interment at Vincennes.
The following conditions were attached to the licences:—
(1) That the removal be effected with due care and
attention to decency early in the morning.