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who apply for further accommodation are unable to purchase. I
frequently have applications from families of five or six living in
one room, which in ordinary times would be dealt with as cases
of overcrowding, but which have to be tolerated under the present
conditions. A Tuberculosis patient is at a disadvantage in respect
of housing accommodation. A worker is found to have Tuberculosis
and applies for treatment. He is probably sent to a Sanatorium
for several months and improves in health. In the meantime
he loses his employment and on his return home is unable
to pay the rent of his house or rooms and sublets to others, with
the result that he is unable to follow out the advice and education
received at the Sanatorium, and the vitiated atmosphere naturally
has a marked effect on the condition of his lungs, so that the
disease rapidly progresses.

Pulmonary Tuberculosis
death-rate 1.68 0.85 0.95 0.88 0.78 0.90
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
W. BENTON.
Town Hall, East Ham.
April, 1926.