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We should propose only to send patients to the sanatoria whom there is every
prospect would be cured by the treatment, but it must be remembered that each
consumptive person in the Borough is a source of infection to the healthy inhabitants
and that even though a patient may not be cured by three months' residence in a
sanatorium yet such patient is trained to habits which will minimise the risk of infection
to other persons and to rules of life which may prevent the patient from becoming
a burden upon his or her relatives or upon the rates for some years.
We recommend—
That, subject to the approval of the estimate by the Finance and Parliamentary
Committee, the Council do authorise us as an experiment
to maintain for a period of one year at a cost not exceeding
£650 a number of beds in already established sanatoria for the
treatment of consumptive inhabitants of the Borough, and that
we be authorised to take the necessary steps to give effect to this
Resolution.
The Council, having adopted the recommendation of the Public Health Committee,
it was resolved to leave the details of the scheme to that Committee. At
the following meeting of the Public Health Committee it was decided to retain six
beds for males at the Farlight Sanatorium, Hastings, and four beds for females at
the Maitland Sanatorium.
Infantile Mortality.
1,041 infants died under one year of age, which corresponds to a death-rate
of 113 per 1,000 births. This number is 89 less than in the previous year and compares
very favourably under all circumstances with that of London as a whole, which
was 103 per 1,000 births.
247 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of 137 per 1,000 births.
224 belonged to the St. Georges-in-the-East, or at the rate of 120 per 1,000
births.
355 belonged to the Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of 100 per 1,000 births.
215 belonged to the Whitechapel District, or at the rate of 110 per 1,000 births.