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substantial numbers of the population will then be an increase in the
number of notifications and an increase in the demand for accommodation
to which the detected patients can be admitted. It will only be later by
the removal from the community of undetected spreaders of infection
that the resulting decline in incidence will be noticed. Some testing has
been carried out on different sections of the population in this district.
The facilities by which those suffering from the disease in a curable
stage might be financially assisted to enable them to take those steps
necessary to become cured continued in force. This provision was made
under a Defence of the Realm Regulation, primarily in the interests of
increasing the man-power of the country. No comparable step under
the ordinary Acts and of general application has yet been taken.