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The total number of persons notified during 1912 who were,
properly speaking, " Hampstead " patients was 222, but 30 of these had
been previously notified, 2 in 1907, 2 in 1908, 8 in 1909, 4 in 1910, and
20 in 1911 ; the number of new " Hampstead " patients notified was 186,
and of these 86 were males and 100 females.
The total number of notification certificates (including duplicates)
received during 1912 relating to Hampstead patients was 318, and of
these 83 were made under the Regulations of 1908, 123 under the
Hospital Regulations, and 112 under the Regulations of 1911 which
extended notification generally.
Reference must here be made to the latest Regulations, the Publ'c
Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, dated 19th December, 1912. These
Regulations revoked the previous Regulations and all Orders made by
the Local Government Board thereunder, and they apply to tionpulmonan/
as well as to pulmonary tuberculosis. Article V. requires
that every medical practitioner (unless acting as a School Medical
Inspector) attending on or called in to visit any person (whether at an
Institution or otherwise\ shall, within forty-eight hours after first
becoming aware that such person is suffering from Tuberculosis, notify
the case to the Medical Officer of Health of the District; unless he has
grounds for believing that the case has already been notified. In the
case of patients at Institutions, the notification must be sent to the
Medical Officer of Health for the District in which the place of
residence of the person is situated. By Article IX. it is required that
notifications must be enclosed in sealed envelopes addressed to the
Medical Officer of Health. Article VIII. provides that, for the