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It is clear that the proportion of tuberculosis in the workingclass
roads is not far from double that in the rest of the borough;
and the higher proportion of deaths to notified cases still alive suggests
notification at a later stage of the disease in the selected roads
than in the rest of the town.
It is natural to conclude that much of the excess in prevalence
of disease among the poorer classes indicated in the preceding
paragraphs is due to the conditions of aggregation under which
they live; aggravated, when conditions of ill-health have arisen,
by lack of means and lack of knowledge to combat them. The
information set out above is thus only another illustration of the
remarkable way in which the housing question is interwoven with
many of the most fundamental problems of present-day social conditions.