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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
88); Streets with which Cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
(Poor Persons) were connected; Conference:—
Provision of Sanatorium Accommodation; Maintenanch
of Beds for Consumptive Cases; London County Council
(General Powers) Bill, 1910; Milk and Dairies Bill,
1910.
Notifications.
Upon notification of a case of pulmonary tuberculosis under the
regulations, the premises are visited and a card is left containing instructions
to the patient and friends as to precautions to be taken by them. A
spitting cup and bottle are loaned where necessary.
The total number of notifications received during the years 1909
and 1910 under the various forms of "The Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1908," was as follows:—