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[1902
Among the provincial Urban Districts in which this form of notification
has been adopted are :—
Blackburn. Drayton. Leamington. St. Albans.
Blackpool. Eccles. Kendal. St. Helens.
Bolton. Edinburgh. Leeds. Salford.
Brighton. Exeter. Leicester. Sheffield.
Bury. Halifax. Liverpool. Southampton.
Carlisle. Harpenden. Manchester. Stanhope.
Cardiff. Hull. Norwich. Stockport.
Clacton-on-Sea. Huddersfield. Nottingham. Stonehouse.
Derby. Jarrow. Plymouth. Sunderland.
In London itself, similar notifications are now made in the City of
London and the Boroughs of:—
Finsbury. Lambeth.
Greenwich. Southwark.
Hammersmith. Stoke Newington.
Hampstead. Woolwich.
Kensington.
Other Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities are also considering the question,
so that there is every probability that before long each of them will have
adopted it.
I may add that several authorities throughout the country are, in addition
to this Voluntary Notification, promoting the erection of Sanitoria for the
treatment of Consumption either (1) by building these places themselves, or
(2) by subsidising institutions which have been built or are in the course of
erection.
Thus in Bradford the foundation stone of a Sanitorium for the treatment
of 42 consumptive patients, and estimated to cost £10,000, has already been
laid. In Brighton, the Sanitary Authority maintain seven patients at the cost
of the rates. Bristol has contributed £1,000 towards its cost of a Sanatorium
for the Counties of Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire; and also pay £260
annually towards its maintenance, on condition that four beds are placed at
the disposal of the City Council. The County Borough of Leeds subscribes
£400 a year to a voluntary hospital. In Liverpool the Poor Law Guardians
have erected a hospital; and there, also, a Sanatorium has been erected by
voluntary subscriptions in connection with the Consumptive Hospitals. In
Sheffield the Council have passed a resolution that a sum of £6,000 per annum