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at work. Those who prove to be in too advanced a condition to
benefit, even by prolonged treatment, at any rate have their lives
lengthened and learn how to continue the treatment at home and
avoid being a source of danger to their relatives and friends, and
the Medical Superintendent is able to pick out those who will best
profit by further stay in the long-treatment beds.
91. Educational Sanatorium Treatment.—Three consumptive
patients are now receiving educational treatment every month, by
passing at least one month at the Sanatorium. The fact that 36
consumptive patients are there trained every year how to preserve
their health and how to avoid infecting others will undoubtedly
do much to diminish the tuberculosis death-rate, and the figures
of the last two years indicate that it has already done so.
The names of 59 applicants for admission to the Sanatorium
were entered on the register during the year, compared with 50
and 65 in the two previous years. Of these, 40 were admitted;
eight were too far advanced to be accepted; others were admitted
to Convalescent Homes. Consumption Hospitals, other Sanatoriums,
or to the Workhouse Infirmary, but all received instructions as to
means to be taken to promote their own health and avoid infecting
others. Indeed, the Sanatorium is found a very useful means of
obtaining notifications of phthisis which would otherwise not be
heard of until death occurred.
92. Thirty-two spitting-flasks were supplied at cost price (5d.),
compared with 23, 35, 14, and 22, in the four previous years.
Cancer.
95. There were 107 cases of cancer (malignant tumour),
giving a death-rate of 0.83 compared with 0.83, 0.75, 0.74, 0.70,
and 0.90, in the five preceding years. 44 of the deaths were in
males and 63 in females. 73 of the deaths were in persons over