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Hackney 1914
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1914
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THE RIVER LEE.
No serious complaints of nuisance from this River were received
during the year.
METHODS OF CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS.
1.—Notification.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912.
Under these Regulations, I received 1,174 notifications of cases
of pulmonary tuberculosis, during the year 1914, of which 624
were duplicates ;also 188 non-pulmonary notifications, of which 40
were duplicates.
The following Tables A and B give the age and sex distribution
of the notified cases:—