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the County Medical Officer, and at the end of each
quarter a numerical return is made showing the cases
added to or removed from the Register, together with
the number remaining at the end of the quarter. The
continual movement of patients to and from the district
entails constant supervision in order that the register
may present a true record. Careful watch is kept on
the home conditions of patients in the register in order
that any defects in their mode of living which might
tend to spread the disease can be amended. Where it is
considered that the prevention of spread of the disease
would be assisted by an improvement in the housing conditions
of the affected family a special recommendation
is made to the Housing Committee to that effect. Four
recommendations of this nature were made during the
year, and all these families were rehoused.