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436, or nearly three-fourths of the notices certifying persons as suffering from consumption or
notifving the admission of consumptives to residential institutions came from the Infirmary (134),
the Tuberculosis Dispensary (139), and from private practitioners (163). Of the notifications of
other forms of tuberculosis 153 out of a total of 177 came from the infirmary, hospitals or other
institutions for the sick, and only 24 were received from private practitioners. More than half of
the notifications of other forms of tuberculosis came from the Kensington Infirmary, and numbered
ninety-four.
Persons Notified. —During the year 536 persons were notified as suffering from consumption,
and 184 as suffering from other forms of tuberculosis. In addition 153 fatal cases of tuberculosis
in persons who had been notified prior to 1915 were reported by the Registrar of Births and Deaths.
The total number of cases reported to the Department in 1915 was accordingly 873.

The new cases of consumption, that is to say, the cases notified in 1915, without having been
notified in any previous year, numbered 402. Thirty-two deaths from consumption also occurred
in persons who died unnotified. Non-pulmonary tuberculosis was also certified as the cause of
death in 31 unnotified persons.
The distribution of the new cases among the several districts in the Borough was as follows: —