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Voluntary notification of consumption obtains in 18 Metropolitan
Districts (including Lambeth), and the time appears ripe,
as stated in previous reports, for the extension of such a
voluntary system to the 11 remaining Metropolitan Districts,
and for making it compulsory upon the authorities of Metropolitan
Hospitals and Dispensaries to notify all phthisical
patients (names and addresses) attending their institutions to
the medical officers of the sanitary authorities concerned. This
would be a useful step in advance. Arrangements should also
be made for the isolation or segregation in sanatoria of all
advanced cases, which are a source of such danger to others
living in the same rooms. This isolation or segregation might,
with advantage, be made compulsory by new legislation. A
conference was held at the Paddington Town Hall on June 6th,
1907, when a series of resolutions were passed, dealing with
the notification of tuberculosis and preventive measures to be
taken (vide Appendix).
EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA.
During 1907, 39 deaths were registered from Influenza in the
Borough of Lambeth, as compared with 42 during 190K, and an
average of 107*5 for ten years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of
Lambeth. Of the 39 deaths, 8 were registered during the
first, 1 during the second, 10 during the third, and 20 during the
fourth quarter, of the year.
In London, there were registered 967 deaths (uncorrected)
from Influenza during 1907.
Reviewing the past ten years' history of the old Parish of
Lambeth in relation to Epidemic Influenza, it will be seen
that the disease has been practically epidemic since 1891, rising
to the maximum in 1892, 1895, 1899, and 1900. The yearly
average for ten years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of Lambeth
is 107'5, so that the 1907 statistics for the new Borough of
Lambeth show a sub-epidemic state.
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