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Cancer.
Five deaths were registered during the year, being a
decrease of one as compared with last year, and seven less
than in 1912.
The Council has undertaken to disinfect the bedding
and the rooms occupied by persons suffering from this
disease, when a request is made by the medical practitioner
in attendance.
Venereal Diseases.
As far as can be ascertained there is no marked
prevalence of these diseases in this district.
No local facilities for modern methods of treatment
exist, cases being mostly treated in the London Hospitals.
Bacteriological Work.
The Council has an arrangement with the Clinical
Research Association for this work, and pays the cost of the
necessary examinations in suspected cases of Diphtheria and
Tuberculosis.
Under this arrangement nine swabs and ten specimens
of sputum were examined and reported upon during 1914.
Disinfection.
All rooms are disinfected after the occurrence of
infectious disease by means of Formalin Gas and the rooms
are stripped and cleansed when necessary.
Bedding and clothing is disinfected by steam at the
Isolation Hospital.
This work is done in all cases by the Council's Officers
free of cost to the householder.