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Influenza
Was in evidence during several months of the year,
resulting in 3 deaths, compared with 5 deaths during
1910.
Phthisis or Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Resulted in 27 deaths. During the previous year
there were 34. The Local Government Board have
now completed their system of the compulsory
notification of this serious disease, which was introduced
in a partial and tentative form by the
Regulations of 1908, which applies to Poor Law
patients It will, I believe, be generally acknowledged
that in considering the question of compulsory
notification, the Board have displayed a thorough
grasp of the requirements of the situation. Although
compulsory notification has been lately advocated by
most public health workers, who have devoted themselves
to the subject, there have been those who have
urged that the inconveniences which may attend the
general application of the principle of compulsory
notification are sufficiently great to outweigh any
advantages which might be anticipated. Provisions
for the compulsory notification of tuberculosis were
granted by Parliament in the Council's Act of 1911,
tout have been held in abeyance, as the general order
of the Local Government Board above referred to came
into operation at the same date as was proposed by
the Council's Act.
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