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The total number of tuberculous I lamp stead residents newly
notified during the year was, therefore, 172.
The increase in the number of patients notified in recent years is
due to the operation of the instalments of compulsory notification.
Notification of consumption was inaugurated in Hampstead in 1902,
when a system of voluntary notification was adopted. This voluntary
system remained in operation until the present Regulations came into
force on 1st February, 1913. Compulsory notification commenced on
1st January, 1909, when the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
which provided for the compulsory notification of cases of consumption
occurring in Poor Law patients, came into operation. On 1st May, .1911,
compulsory notification was extended by the Public Health (Tubercidosis
in Hospitals) Regulations, 1911, to all cases of consumption occurring
in hospital patients; and notification was extended, generally, by the
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911, which came into
operation on 1st January, 1912. These regulations were replaced in
1913 by those now in force, which came into operation on 1st February,
and which apply to all forms of tuberculosis.
The total number of persons notified in 1914 as suffering from
tuberculosis was 221, but 49 of these had been notified prior to 1914.
Of the 221 cases, 133 were pulmonary, and 38 non-pulmonary.
The total number of cases brought to my knowledge for the first time
in 1914 was 172, i.e., 142 pulmonary, and 30 non-pulmonary. 97 of
the 172 were non-insured, 66 were insured under the National Insurance
Act, and in 9 cases the information could not be ascertained.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.—Of the 183 cases, 41 had been previously
notified in former years, and of the remaining 142,19 were not, properly
speaking, " Hampstead " residents, 15 being institution cases—the