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application forms of selected tenants for the Council's housing
estate at Eltham and by an analysis of the applications
made under the Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts. When
these allowances have been made, the figures for the old
registration districts are as follows:—
These figures have been used throughout the report for
calculating the rates in the Borough and the various registration
districts.
Sickness and Invalidity. The incidence of the infectious
diseases is referred to in the appropriate Sections of the
Report, and these were present to a greater extent than in
the previous few years. There was, as could only be expected
from the cold character of the winter months, an increase in
the amount of influenza and respiratory diseases.
In January, the Minister gave a general sanction to
the provision of medical assistance for poor families suffering
from influenza, and in one instance, where a whole family
of ten was stricken down, a home help and nursing assistance
was provided under this authority.
This note on sickness is necessarily incomplete because
no returns are made to Medical Officers of Health which
would enable a complete and accurate survey to be made.