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Poor Law Institutions, in the practice of Poor Law Medical Officers, in
voluntary hospitals, dispensaries, etc., and in the", ordinary practice of medical
practitioners. In fine they provided for a system of compulsory notification
by medical practitioners of all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis with certain
specified minor exceptions. They also required certain notification of the
movements of Poor Law cases by Superintending Officers and Relieving
Officers.
On February 1st, 1913, the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912,
came into operation and replaced all former Tuberculosis Regulations. Under
these Regulations the notification of all cases of all forms of tuberculosis
became compulsory, with certain exceptions similar to those provided under the
former Regulations. The notification of change of patients' address by Poor
Law Superintending and Relieving Officers was also abolished, and provision
made for weekly lists of patients admitted to and discharged from Poor Law
Institutions and Sanatoria to be sent by the Medical Officers of such Institutions
to the Medical Officer of Health of the Sanitary Districts within which
the residence or place of destination of the patients are situate. The other
principal change made by the new Regulations is that Medical Officers of
institutions are now required to notify to the Medical Officer of Health of the
district in which the residence of the patient is situate and not of the district
in which the institution is situate.

The notifications which were received daring January, 1913 (under the old
Regulations) were as follows :—