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numbers certified in 1910 and 1S09 were 241 and 313 respectively. Some 846
persons therefore have been certified as suffering from phthisis or consumption
under the regulations above-mentioned during the past three years.
Under the Public Health (Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations, 1911, which
came into operation on May 1st of the year under consideration, the number of
certificates received was, excluding duplicates, 1,100. Of these, 193 were received
from the medical officers of health of various sanitary authorities to whom they
had been sent in the first place in accordance with the requirements of the
regulations. The majority of the certificates came from medical officers at the
Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest which is situate in the Borough, and from
the Victoria Park Hospital, Bethnal Green, but certificates were received from some
30 institutions altogether in London or elsewhere, including most of the great
general hospitals of the Metropolis. Of the certificates received, 813 were in
respect to patients not resident in Shoreditch. These were forwarded in accordance
with the regulations to the medical officers of health of the various sanitary
authorities, some 74 in number, in whose districts the patients were resident. Most
of these patients lived in Islington, Finsbury, Stepney, Hackney, Bethnal Green,
Tottenham, Poplar, West and East Ham, Southwark and Camberwell, but some of
them resided far away from London, in Gloucester, Wales and elsewhere. The
remaining 287 certificates related to persons suffering from consumption who were
resident in Shoreditch.