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VOLUNTARY NOTIFICATION OF CONSUMPTION.
The Voluntary Notification of Consumption, which was in the first instance
put into force for a period of 12 months from the 1st January, 1904, the fees to
he paid being the same as for the notifiable diseases, was extended to the year
1905, and has since been further extended for the three years 1906 08.
Excluding a few duplicates there were 171 cases notified, 74 belonging to
St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 97 to the Holborn District. The corresponding
numbers for the year 1906 were respectively 191, 98 and 93. The cost of the
notification was £10. 19s. Od.
Of the 171 cases notified, 93 or 54 per cent., had been living in common
lodging houses, and thess were all, at once or soon afterwards, removed to
infirmaries. With a few exceptions the remaining 78 lived in tenement houses,
and 59 of them were soon removed to infirmaries or hospitals, so that only 19
remained at home.
In previous Annual Reports for 1904-5 I gave details as to the action that is
taken and the various residts that were obtained from the enquiries made, and I
think it is now unnecessary to repeat these.
After death, or removal to infirmary or hospital, disinfection is advised.
Consent for this was, however, obtained in only 86 cases.
CONFERENCE ON THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION
At a Conference of the representatives of the City and Metropolitan Borough
Councils, on the question of taking measures to limit the spread of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis (Consumption), held at the Town Hall, Paddington, on the 6th .June,
1907, at which your delegates were the then Chairman of the Public Health
Committee, Councillor James Smith, the Vice-Chairman, Councillor The Eev^
Edward Canney, and the Medical Officer of Health, the following resolutions were
passed:—
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