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The notifications received under the new Regulations on and after February 1st, numbered
1,247. Only 21 notifications were received on Form B. from School Medical Officers. The excess
of discharges notified on Form D over admissions notified on Form C, has been due to the use of
the primary certificate on Form A in certain institutions for notifying patients on admission, and
to the neglect to include patients so notified in the weekly returns of admissions on Form C.

The notifications on 77 certificates from hospitals, 55 certificates from officers of Guardians,
and 30 certificates from private practitioners, received before February 1st, under the old
Regulations are not included in the above Table. Under the new Regulations 643, or three-fourths
of the notices certifying persons as suffering from consumption or notifying the admission of
consumptives to residential institutions came from the Infirmary (206), the Tuberculosis Dispensary
(172), and from private practitioners (265). Of the notifications of other forms of tuberculosis 204
out of a total of 234 came from the infirmary, hospitals or other institutions for the sick, and only
30 were received from private practitioners. One-fourth of the notifications of other forms of
tuberculosis came from the Kensington Infirmary, and numbered sixty-one.
Persons Notified.—During the year 775 persons were notified as suffering from consumption,
and 221 as suffering from other forms of tuberculosis. In addition 128 fatal cases of tuberculosis
in persons who had not been notified during the year 1913 were reported by the Registrar of Births
and Deaths. The total number of cases reported to the Department in 1913 was accordingly 1,124.