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[1912
OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
These include Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Plague, Cholera, Acute Poliomyelitis,
Polio Encephalitis, Epidemic Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, Opthalmia
Neonatorum.
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
Pulmonary tuberculosis was notifiable in 1912 under three orders of the
Local Government Board, viz:—(a) The Public Health Tuberculosis Regulations,
1908, (b) The Public Health (Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations,
1911, and the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911. It is necessary
to deal with each Order separately.
Notifications under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1908.— Under these regulations 1,282 notifications were received, as
compared with 1,341 in 1911, and with 1,277 in 1910, so that there was a
decrease of 59 on the return of 1911, and an increase of 5 on that or 1910.
The 1,282 notifications related, however, to only 661 persons, of whom only
442 were Islingtonians; while those of 1911 related to only 735 persons, of
whom 484 were Islingtonians, and those of 1910 related to 696 persons, of whom
478 were Islingtonians.
Notifications. Persons. Islingtonians.
1909 1,582 808 574
1910 1,277 696 478
1911 1,341 735 484
1912 1,282 661 442
Notifications
received.
Form A. Medical Officers of Poor Law Institutions 516
Form B. Medical Officers of Poor Law Districts 238
Form C. Superintending Officers of Public Institutions 525
Form D. Relieving Officers of Poor Law Districts 3
Total Notifications 1,282