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work and keep well under favourable conditions. 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.
87. The names of 70 applicants were entered on the register
during the year for admission to the Sanatorium, compared
with 50, 65, and 59 in the three previous years. Of these, 40
have been admitted; 11 were too far advanced to be accepted;
3 were found not to be tuberculous, and one could not afford to
give up work. He, like many others, would be obliged to go
on working until there was no chance of his recovery. Others
were admitted to Convalescent Homes, Consumption Hospitals,
other Sanatoriums, or the Workhouse Infirmary, but all received
instructions as to means to be taken to promote their
own health and avoid infecting others.
88. Twenty-three spitting flasks were supplied at cost price
(6d.), compared with 5, 14, 22, and 32, in the four previous
years.
Cancer.
89. There were 96 cases of cancer (malignant tumour),
giving a death-rate of 0.75, compared with 0.75, 0.74, 0.70,
0.90 and 0.83 in the five preceding years. 39 of the deaths
were in males and 57 in females. 72 of the deaths were in
persons over 55. The highest mortality was in Eltham and
Dockyard Wards. The London death-rate was 1.03 in 1907.
90. The following table shews the sex and region affected
of all cases of malignant disease:—
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