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numbers for the year 1905 were respectively 208, 99, and 109. The cost of
the notification was £11 16s. 0d.
Of the 191 cases notified, 114, or 60 per cent., had been living in common
lodging houses, and these were all, at once or soon afterwards, removed to
infirmaries. With a few exceptions the remainiug 77 lived in tenement houses,
and 55 of them were soon removed to infirmaries or hospitals, so that only 23
remained at home.
In my two previous Annual Reports I have given details as to the action
that is taken and the various results that were obtained from the enquiries made,
and I think it is now unnecessary to repeat this.
After death or removal to infirmary or hospital disinfection is advised.
Consent for this was, however, obtained in only 60 cases.
SANATORIA.
In my Annual Report for the year 1903 I reported that in November of that
year the following resolution was passed by the Metropolitan Asylums Board:—
"That the Managers having duly considered the question of the
proposed establishment of sanatoria for consumptive patients, and the
letters received from the Local Government Board and the various
Metropolitan Authorities and Medical Officers of Health in regard
thereto, are of opinion that the matter is one of such vital and farreaching
importance to the community at large, and one which, if
adopted by the Managers, would entail so considerable extension of
their duties and responsibilities, and so large an increase in their expenditure,
as to call for some authoritative expression of opinion by the
Chief Health Authority of the country, viz., the Local Government
Board, before the Managers are asked to take any definite action in the
matter or to make any further inquiries in regard thereto, and that
the Local Government Board, the several Boards of Guardians, the
Borough Councils and the Medical Officers of Health be so informed."
The matter was carefully considered by the Local Government Board, and
in a letter dated the 22nd March, 1906, the Board informed the Managers of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board that the information at present before them dces
not appear to afford sufficient justification for the very heavy outlay which would
be involved in the proposal.
ROYAL COMMISSION ON TUBERCULOSIS
(HUMAN AND BOVINE).
The Second Interim Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire
into the relations of Human and Animal Tuberculosis was recently published.