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From this table, it will be seen that notifications of tuberculosis are diminishing in number
year by year. In the opinion of the two Tuberculosis Officers and the Council's Women Sanitary
Inspectors, this decreasing number of notifications is due to the fact that the disease is becoming
less prevalent. There is, however, one important point to be considered before this view can be
accepted, and that is whether the medical practitioners are notifying the cases as regularly as they
did in pre-War years. I am of the opinion that, in some cases, medical practitioners are not
strictly complying with their obligations in regard to notification under the Tuberculosis Regulations,
and I propose, at an early date, to circularise local medical men drawing attention to the
importance of their strict compliance with these Regulations and of their utilising freely the
services of the Tuberculosis Officers in order to arrive at a diagnosis as early as possible in difficult
or doubtful cases.