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death of a child aged 12 months, who was not notified,
was ascribed to infantile paralysis.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
23 cases were reported, of which ten were removed
to Fulham Infirmary.
Tuberculosis.
On February 1st, 1913, the order of the Local
Government Board requiring the notification of all
forms of tuberculosis, non-pulmonary as well as
pulmonary, came into force.
During the year 765 new cases of pulmonary and
289 of other forms of tuberculosis were notified. Table
XXVI. gives the number of notifications of males and
females at various age periods that were received from
February 1st, 1913, when the regulations came into force,
until January 3rd, 1914 and during January, 1913, 30
males and 32 females were notified as suffering from
pulmonary tuberculosis.