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qualifying categories, namely, patients awaiting admission to or
receiving treatment in residential institutions, or patients who
haying received institutional treatment are not fit to return to
work.
Three hundred and forty patients received a total of 5,394
artificial pneumothorax refills at an expense to the Council of
£1,847. Forty-eight X-rays and Tomographs were taken in respect
of sixteen patients at a cost of £32.
Beds and bedding were on loan to 11 patients during the year.
The loan of garden shelters to two patients was continued.
Two patients received dental treatment, including the provision
of artificial dentures in each case, at a cost to the Council
of £5 3s. 9d., and 81 patients were granted extra nourishment.
The Tuberculosis Health Visitors paid 3,357 visits to patients'
homes during the year.
Hackney Borough Council Act, 1926.—Section 54 of this Act
enables the Council to secure the compulsory removal to a suitable
institution of any person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis
who is in an infectious state and living under such conditions as to
cause risk of infection to other persons.

In no case has it been necessary to secure a magistrate's order
for compulsory removal, but it has been possible to secure improvement
in the home conditions of patients by making reference to
the powers for removal contained in the Act.