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required to send to the Medical Officer for the County weekly lists of all notifications relating to
persons residing within his Borough and received in pursuance of the Tuberculosis Regulations,
1908 and 1911. Since the majority of the patients attending the Brompton Hospital in Kensington
do not reside within the Borough, the task of redistribution has materially increased the work of
the clerical staff of the Public Health Department. Article VII. authorises the Council to carry
out disinfection and to make the same provision for persons notified under the new Regulations as
may be made for " poor persons " notified under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908.
Notification of Consumption.—During the year 1263 notification certificates relating to
persons suffering from consumption were received and dealt with in the Public Health Department.
The sources from which these official certificates were forwarded were as follows, viz., from officers
of Boards of Guardians, under the Tuberculosis Regulations, 1908, 364 certificates; from the
Medical Officers of hospitals, under the Tuberculosis Regulations, 1911, 889 certificates; and from
private medical practitioners under the system of voluntary notification existing in Kensington,
10 certificates.

Of the 66 certificates on Form B from District Medical Officers 47 related to persons under
treatment in their homes who were subsequently removed to the Infirmary and re-notified on Form
A. Only 19 cases remain in which consumptive persons sought medical advice from the District
Medical Officers before the disease was so far advanced as to demand admission to the Infirmary.
The admissions for consumption to the Kensington Infirmary numbered 150 and were duly notified
on Form A; the discharges notified on Form C numbered 69, and to this figure may be added the
59 deaths from consumption which occurred in the Kensington Infirmary during the year. If this
be done the following figures, based on the notification and death certificates received, will represent
the record of the wards reserved for consumption in the Infirmary during the year 1911.
Kensington Infirmary.
Discharges 69
Deaths 59
Admissions 150
Discharges and Deaths 128
Balance 22
The balance 22 which represents the difference between the number of admissions and the
number of discharges or deaths during the year is to be accounted for in one or more of the
following ways:—
(i) By an increase in the number of consumptives remaining in the infirmary at the end of
the year 1911, as compared with the number under treatment at the end of 1910.
(ii) By the discharge of patients to addresses beyond the Borough.
(iii) By failure to notify the discharge of consumptive patients to addresses in Kensington.
Of the 150 notifications of the admission of consumptive patients to the Kensington Infirmary
47 referred to persons previously notified by the District Medical Officers; 13 persons were
admitted twice and one person was admitted four times during the year, notifications being sent on
each occasion.