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and (b) the compulsory Poor Law Scheme, i.e., Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulatitons, 1908 and (2) other sources e.g.,
London County Council Education Department, private benevolent
or philanthropic associations, Hospitals (general and
special), the Army (discharged soldiers), Charity Organization
Society, etc.
These notifications are set out in Tables L, II., III., IV.
and V., dealing with (i.) Wards and (ii.) Registration SubDistricts,
in so far as the year 1910 is concerned.
Comparing these figures with those published in former
Reports, it will be noted that the total number of cases of
consumption or pulmonary phthisis voluntarily notified by
medical men during 1910 in Lambeth, under the Lambeth
Voluntary Notification (Consumption) scheme is smaller than
in previous years, viz., 117, as compared with 117 and
373 during 1909 and 1908, and a total of 2514 for the
9 years, during which this voluntary (Lambeth) scheme
has been in force (1902-1910).* This decrease is due to
the introduction of the Compulsory Notification of Poor
Law Cases under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1908, which came into force throughout the Borough
(and the rest of London) on January 1st, 1909. Under
these Regulations, there are 4 sets of notifications (pulmonary
tuberculosis, i.e., consumption or phthisis) compulsory,
viz. ;—
Form A—Patients admitted into the Poor Law Institutions
;
Form B—Patients receiving Poor Law Medical Relief
outside the Poor Law Institutions;
Form C—Inmates (previously notified) of the Poor Law
Institutions, when leaving;
Form D—Changes of addresses of persons (previously
notified), receiving Poor Law Medical Relief outside
the Poor Law Institutions.
* The Voluntary (Lambeth) Notification Scheme came into force on
|une 1st, 1902, and includes cases notified from the Brompton Consumption
and other Hospital Medical Staffs.
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