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INFLUENZA.
Twelve deaths were registered as due to
influenza, against 14 deaths in the previous year. No
official action was taken in reference to this complaint,
as no application was made for the disinfection of any
of the houses in which death occurred.
PHTHISIS.
The voluntary notification of phthisis, which your
Council decided upon on 7th April, 1902, was continued
during last year. Altogether, 264 cases were
notified to me against 163 cases in the previous year.
These, no doubt, represent only a small proportion of
the cases that actually occurred, as 148 deaths were
registered, against 135 deaths in the previous year. In
all cases notified, or in which death occurred, the
premises were at once inspected, and after death in all
cases occurring in private dwelling houses an offer was
made to disinfect the premises at the expense of your
Council. In every case a printed instruction as to the
course that should be adopted for the prevention of
consumption was left at the premises. In very few
instances was advantage taken of the offer of your
Council to disinfect. Of the 264 cases notified last
year, 125 were reported under the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, from Infirmaries,
Workhouses, and District Poor Law Medical Officers.
One hundred and thirty-one were reported under the
Tuberculosis Regulations, 1911. Only 8 were reported
by private Medical Practitioners. On March 26th,
1911, the Local Government Board issued regulations
as to tuberculosis in hospitals, and November 16th
further regulations were issued by the Board making
pulmonary tuberculosis a notifiable infectious disease.
The latter order to come into force on January 1st,
1912.