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of Health to the London County Council Public Health
Department, where it is duplicated and circulated. In
two instances last year the notifying Medical Practitioner
refused, unless paid a fee, to supply the required particulars,
but in all other instances I obtained the necessary
information without difficulty.
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS.
Seven cases of this disease were notified during the
year with one death. Particulars of cases of this disease
are circulated by the London County Council as with
cases of Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Deaths due to tuberculosis in various forms numbered
259, forming 12.4 per cent, of the total deaths
from all causes; this is equal to a death rate of 2.15 per
thousand estimated population, approximately the same
as for 1914. Forty-one of the deaths were amongst
young children, a mortality of 2.5 per thousand children
living. Seven infants died from tubercular disease of
the brain, and an equal number from other tuberculous
diseases.
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
The deaths from tuberculosis of the lungs (phthisis)
numbered 194, equal to a mortality rate of 1.61, as
against 1.51 for the whole of London.
NOTIFICATION OF TUBERCULOSIS.
The number of notifications of all forms of tuberculosis
received during 1915 was as follows :—