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Poplar 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS,
1908.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS IN HOSPITALS)
REGULATIONS, 1911.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS,
1911.
Total Number of Notifications; Poor Law Institutions
Within and Without Borough; The Actual Number of
Poor Persons on Register During the Years 1909, 1910, 1911
and 1912 ; Deaths of Poor Persons 1909, 1910, 1911 and 1912 ;
Public Health (Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations,
1911; Hospitals Within Borough, Number of Notifications,
Transfers and Second Notifications ; Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1911; Private Cases; Transfers and
Second Notifications ; School Cases, Transfers ; Bacteriological
Examinations ; Disinfection of Rooms and Articles
See Page 91 ; Spittoons and Bars of Licensed Premises ;
Streets with which Cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis were
Connected ; London County Council and Interim Report of
Departmental Committee ; Provision of means for Treatment
of Tuberculosis—Conference of Metropolitan Borough
Councils; National Insurance Act, 1911—Council's Representative
on the Local Sub-Committee ; Anti-Tuberculosis
Dispensary ; Milk and Dairies Bill (see p4ge 158).
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.
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The total number of notifications received during the years 1909,
1910, 1911 and 1912, under the various forms of "The Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908," was as follows:—