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under (a) the voluntary Lambeth Notification (Consumption)
Scheme, 1902,* which came into force on June 1st, 1902, (b)
the compulsory Poor Law, Hospitals and Private Pulmonary
Tuberculosis Schemes, known as Regulations, e.g., the
Public Health (Tuberculosis) 1908, the Public Health
(Tuberculosis in Hospitals) 1911, and the Public Health
(Tuberculosis), 1911.
All the sources of notifications received during 1912 are
set out in Tables Q(I.), Q(II.), Q(III), Q(IV.),
and Q(V.), dealing with (a) Wards and (b) Registration
Sub-Districts.
In each case notified, from whatever source, a visit is
paid, unless the notifying medical man is of opinion
that such an official visit is unnecessary, leaflets
are distributed and disinfection is carried out as
required, but with due regard to privacy, instructions being
given to the officers to avoid doing anything likely to cause
pain or annoyance to patients or their friends.
Taking all the notifications received during 1912—a total
of 1,920, the disease appears to have had a greater incidence
upon the Inner than the Outer Districts (Registration SubDistricts
and Wards), viz.: 1,173 to 747, i.e., 9.3 to
4.3 per 1,000 population due to (a) the more crowded
conditions, persons in houses, and houses over area,
and (b) the different (poorer) status of the inhabitants, in the
former as compared with the latter.
Taking the medical notifications of tuberculosis of the
lungs (consumption) received under the Regulations, 1908
and 1911, but excluding the re-notifications, the incidence-
*No notifications were received during 1912 under the Lambeth
Notification (Consumption) Scheme 1902.
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