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them." Let us hope that the time is not far distant when it will be accepted
as an axiom in England, that the cost of preventing and stamping out phthisis
is less than that of burying its victims, and supporting their families.
ACTION BY SANITARY AUTHORITIES.
In my previous report on this subject a list of forty.five sanitary
authorities in England and Wales which had adopted voluntary notification
were given. Since then many others have come into line, so that the
following 91 authorities are now engaged in doing their duty with respect
to phthisis.
BOROUGHS.
Accrington Derby Northampton
Appleby Eccles Newport (Mon)
Bath Exeter Plymouth
Birkenhead Eastbourne Reading
Bristol Huddersfield Sheffield (compulsory)
Bolton Hove Sunderland
Bootle Jarrow.on.Tyne Stockport
Bury Kendal St. Helens (Lanes.)
Bradford Leicester Southport
Cardiff Leigh Warrington
Chester Liverpool York
Croydon Manchester
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCILS.
Llanley Birkdale Waterloo.with.Seaforth
Borough of Hyde Leavensholme Garstang
Knutsford Little Hulton Biddulph
Middlewich Little Leven Burgess Hill
Winsford Moss Side Cuckfield
Seven Oaks Nuck Woolton Ambleside
Ashby Walds Newton.in.Makerfield Windermere
Market Harborough Stretford Kirby Lonsdale
Wigston Yottington Balby
Acton Ulverston Wheatley
Chiswick
RURAL DISTRICT COUNCILS.
Bucklow Malton Cherbury
Norton Garstang Westmorland
Billesden Drayton South Westmorland
Market Bosworth