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don County Council Education Department, private benevolent
or philanthropic associations, Hospitals (general and
special), the Army (discharged soldiers), Charity Organization
Society, etc.
These notifications are set out in Tables I., II., 11I., 1V.
and V., dealing with (i.) New Wards and (it.) New Registration
Sub-Districts, in so far as the year 1909 is concerned.
Comparing these figures with those published in former
Reports, it will be noted that the total number of cases of
consumption or pulmonary phthisis voluntarily notified by
medical men during 1909 in Lambeth, under the Lambeth
Voluntary Notification (Consumption) Scheme is smaller than
in previous years, viz., 117, as compared with 373 during
1908, and a total of 2397 for the 8 years, during which this
voluntary (Lambeth) scheme has been in force (1902-1909).
This decrease is due to the introduction of the Compulsory
Notification of Poor Law Cases under the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, which came into force.
throughout the Borough (and the rest of London) on January
1st, 1909. Under these Regulations, there are 4 sets
of notifications (pulmonary tuberculosis, i.e., consumption or
phthisis) compulsory, viz.:-
Form A—Patients admitted into the Poor Law Institutions;
Form B—Patients receiving Poor Law Medical Relief
outside the Poor Law Institutions;
Form C—Inmates (previously notified) of the Poor Law
Institutions, when leaving;
Form D—Changes of addresses of persons (previously
notified), receiving Poor Law Medical Relief outside
the Poor Law Institutions.
The Voluntary (Lambeth) Notification Scheme came into force on June
1st, 1902, and includes cases notified from the Brompton Consumption and
other Hospital Medical Staff.