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THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1908.
Total Number of Notifications; Poor Law Institutions Inside
and outside Borough; Total Number of Poor Persons
Notified; Disinfection of Rooms and Articles (see page
69); Streets with which casks of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
(Poor Persons) were connected; Oaths Act, 1909;
Gore Farm Hospital as a Sanatorium; Compulsory
Notification and Practical Reforms; Tuberculous Milk,
London County Council (General Powers) Bill, 1910
(see page 141.)
Upon the coming into force of the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1908, the Public Health and Housing Committee reported
to the Council that they had approved the issue, in connection
with cases notified under the regulations, of cards containing instructions
to patients and their friends as to precautions to be taken by them. The
Committee also reported that they had approved the supply, where
necessary, of spitting cups and bottles, on loan, for use in such cases.
Special cards, deprecating the practice of spitting as a cause of
spreading the infection of tuberculosis, were distributed throughout the
district. Cards were also left at all the hair-cutting and shaving rooms,
the eating-houses and coffee-shops, bakehouses, public-houses and a large
number of factories.
Notifications.
The total number (565) of notifications received during the year 1909
under the various forms of "The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1908," was as follows :—