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The deaths from Phthisis or consumption of the
lungs numbered 195, and are equal to a rate of 1.48
per thousand population at all ages, as against 1.31
for the whole of London.
Fifty-eight of the seventy-seven deaths from other
forms of tuberculous disease were amongst young
children aged less than five years, a mortality on the
estimated population of young children of 3.2 per
thousand living.
Of the infants under one year, eight died from
tubercular meningitis, ten from tubercular peritonitis
and nine from tuberculous affections of bones
and joints.
Ten samples of sputum were examined at the
request of medical practitioners, but in only one
instance was a positive result obtained
NOTIFICATION OF TUBERCULOSIS.
In April a letter was received from the London
County Council with reference to the voluntary notification
of phthisis now in operation in nineteen of the
Metropolitan Boroughs and in the City of London.
Enquiry was made as to whether the Council would
invite voluntary notification of Phthisis in persons
other than paupers in extension of the recent regulations
made by the Local Government Board requiring
the notification of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in
Poor Law Institutions, etc.
This question had been before the Committee on
several occasions previously, but the matter was again
fully discussed and I presented a report on the matter.