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Revision of Tuberculosis Register.
As mentioned in the Annual Report for 1929, the Tuberculosis
Register, in accordance with the suggestion of the Ministry of Health,
was subjected to a thorough revision, the names of 367 patients who
were found to be no longer suffering from the disease being removed
from the Register.
During 1931 the names of 33 additional patients were, after
medical examination and consideration of their history, removed
from the Register, as compared with 54 in 1930.
The County of London (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
These Regulations, dated 26th March, 1930, came into force
on 1st April, 1930. They empowered the London County Council
to arrange for the maintenance, otherwise than in their own homes,
of children living in houses where, owing to overcrowding or otherwise,
they are, in the opinion of the County Medical Officer, in
danger of being infected with tuberculosis, or whose parents are
receiving residential treatment for tuberculosis and for whose care
adequate arrangements cannot otherwise be made.
During 1931 three children were boarded out under the scheme