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with sore throat and fever, paralysis was noticed almost
at once. Upon examination both lower limbs were found
to be affected; there was no pain or mental defect; the
patient is still under treatment at date of this report;
paralysis persists. The sanitary condition of the premises
was fair, with the exception of some necessary cleansing;
no animals were kept, and there had been no recent illness
amongst the other inmates of the house.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The deaths recorded as from the various forms of
Tubercular disease during 1913 numbered 274, 13½ per
cent. of the total deaths from all causes in the Borough, a
death rate of 2.14 per thousand population. Sixty of the
deaths were amongst young children, a mortality of 3.7
per thousand children living. Five infants died from
tubercular disease of the brain, and an equal number from
tubercular disease of the bowels.
PULMONARY PHTHISIS.
The deaths from tubercular lung disease numbered
197, equal to a mortality rate of 1.54 against 1.32 for
the whole of London.
NOTIFICATION OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Tuberculosis of all kinds is now a notifiable disease
under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations of
1912, which came into operation on February 1st, 1913.
Including the cases notified during the month of January
(before the new regulation took effect), 766 cases of
Phthisis have been notified, and 230 cases of non-pulmonary
tuberculosis. In Table II. (a) in the appendix