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form of the disease, a mortality of three per thousand
children living. Seven infants died from tubercle of
brain and four from tubercular disease of the bowels.
PULMONARY PHTHISIS,
The deaths from tubercular disease of the lungs
numbered 205, equal to a rate of 1.62 against 1.35 for
the whole of London. So far as Poor-Law Officers are
concerned, this disease has been compulsorily notifiable
since January, 1909; in May, 1911, the requirement
was extended to the Medical Officers of Public Hospitals
and Dispensaries, and in January, 1912, a third Order
of the Local Government Board imposed a similar
obligation upon private medical practitioners. Finally
the three orders were revoked, and the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations 1912, were issued. The
new regulations provide for the notification of all hinds
of Tuberculosis, and make considerable changes in the
method of notification. By direction of the Public
Health Committee the following circular letter was
forwarded to all medical Practitioners in the Borough.
December, 1912.
PUBLIC HEATH (TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1912.
Dear Sir,
I beg to inform you that the above-mentioned
Regulations will come into force on the first day of
February next; the previous Regulations and
Orders made thereunder, relating to the notification
of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, are revoked from that
date.
The method of notification has undergone considerable
modification.