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It is evident, therefore, that even if the sale of milk from tuberculous
cows be stopped tuberculosis in children will not be entirely
prevented.
Another point which ought to be considered is the question of the
employment in the handling of milk of persons suffering from consumption.
In the list of occupations of persons who have died from
consumption will be found three persons engaged in this business. It.
is difficult to imagine that they would not infect the milk they wereselling.
Notification.-Seventy-eight notifications were received in 1906;
the numbers in previous years were: 1903, 123; 1904, 148; 1905, 112.
The cost was £3 4s. 6d. Ninety-four visits were paid in connection
with consumption cases, but in addition thereto 122 cases were visited
from time to time by the Health Society's visitors.
Seventy-seven rooms in 64 houses and 864 articles were disinfected
by the Council's staff, and general cleansing of the premises was carried
out after each death, or removal from one house to another.