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In 1903 the percentage of removals both of scarlet fever and of
diphtheria cases was higher than in any previous year. There was no
delay in effecting the removal of any Chelsea cases to the M.A.B.
hospitals.
Voluntary Notification of Phthsis.-On the 10th June, 1903, the
Borough Council resolved to adopt the voluntary notification of phthisis
in the Borough, the fees to medical practitioners to be the same as
under the Public Health (London) Act.
The provision of sanatoria by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for
the open-air treatment of London consumptives, which was approved
by the Borough Council, on a report presented by me to the Public
Health Committee, has again been the subject of consideration. The
Metropolitan Asylums Board has now referred the whole question of
such treatment of consumptives to the Local Government Board for the
opinion of that Board on the principles involved.