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1903. Borough Council oommenced to maintain beds at
Peppard Sanatorium.
Letters 6ent to public-house managers asking them
to arrange for wet cleansing of floors, and avoid
dry sweeping, which helps to cause the excessive
mortality from Phthisis among public-house
servants.
1906. Guardians commenced Open-air Treatment of
Phthisis at Woolwich Infirmary.
1910. Open-air Shelters for night use of Consumptives in
their own gardens, furnished on loan by the
Borough Council.
1911. Woolwich Tuberculosis Dispensary started.
1912. Notification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis made
pulsory .
1913. Notification of all forms of Tuberculosis made
pulsory.
CANCER.
85. There were 137 deaths from cancer (malignant
tumour), giving a death-rate of 1.06, compared with 0.93,
0.88, 1 02, 0 97, and 101, in the five preceding years.
62 of the deaths were in males, and 75 in females. 16
only of the deaths were in persons under 45. The highest
mortality was in West Plumstead and Eltham. The London
death-rate was 1.12 in 1913. One-third of the deaths occurred
in public institutions. Of the 137 deaths, 7 were from
sarcoma and 130 from carcinoma.
86. The following table shows the sex and region affected
in all cases of sarcoma for males and females:—