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Seven of the notification certificates received during 1909 related
to patients who had already been notified; the number of new patients
notified was, therefore, 60, and of these 25 were males and 35 females.
All these patients were Hampstead residents.
The increase in the number of notified patients in 1909, is due to the
operations of the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, which
provide for the compulsory notification to the Medical Officer of Health
of cases of consumption occurring in Poor Law patients. The Regulations
apply to patients receiving out-door relief as well as to those treated in
institutions, and the obligation to notify is laid upon the district medical
officers and upon the medical officers of Poor Law institutions. Relieving
officers are also called upon to notify changes of address in patients who
have been notified by the Poor Law doctors, and the superintendent
officers of Poor Law institutions must notify the discharge of a notified
consumptive patient from the institution and the address to which the
patient is going. The total number of notifications received during the
year, including duplicates, was 134, relating to 82 patients, of which 15
belonged to districts outside Hampstead. The number of notifications
relating to Hampstead patients was 119, and of these 12 were made
under the voluntary system of notification. The notifications were
received from the following sources:—
Private Practitioners 6
Hospitals and Dispensaries 6
Hampstead District Medical Officers 26
Medical Officer, Hampstead Workhouse 56
Medical Officers of outlying Poor Law Institutions on
admission of Hampstead patients 2
Master of Hampstead Workhouse on Discharge of
patients 22
Master of outlying Poor Law Institution on Discharge
of patient to a Hampstead address 1