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sarily follow the information so obtained, and at no distant date it
is to be hoped that a great decrease will have taken place in the
death rate from this formidable and insidious disease, which has
been the reproach of sanitary administration in this country.
During 1908, 123 houses where deaths had occurred from
Pulmonary Tuberculosis were disinfected, representing 86 per
cent, of the houses in which fatal cases occurred. By arrangement
with the District Registrars, information of the deaths of
patients from Phthisis is immediately sent to the Medical Officer
of Health, and steps are at once taken to have the houses in which
patients died disinfected.
During 1908, 118 samples of sputum were bacteriologically
examined, 30 of which were found to give a positive and 88
a negative result.