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make a declaration before the registrar to that effect. Where a
declaration has to be made that the child was not born alive and
the matter is brought to the notice of the Local Authority by the
registrar, the Ministry, in their Circular 802a, request that the
Medical Officer of Health should arrange for inquiries to be made,
for example, by a Health Visitor, in order that he may be in a
position to inform the registrar whether he is satisfied that the
child was really still-born, or whether there were any suspicious
circumstances attaching to the case.
No application was made by the local registrars for any such
enquiry during the year.
REPORT OF THE TUBERCULOSIS MEDICAL
OFFICER FOE THE YEAR 1927.
The Current List of Notifications of Tuberculosis in Camberwell
as at December 31st, 1927.
At December 31st, 1927 there were 2,457 cases of tuberculosis
on the current list in Camberwell. There were 1,721 cases
of pulmonary tuberculosis—983 males and 738 females —and 736
cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis —386 males and 350 females.

On Table I the number of notifications on the Tuberculosis
Register in Camberwell at the end of the years 1925, 1926 and
1927 respectively are compared.
Table II supplies an analysis under age periods, sex, and the
broad grouping of pulmonary and non-pulmonary forms.