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126 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
This decrease is due to the fact that inquiries were made from
the Poor Law Institutions as to the condition of cases which had
been notified in previous years, when it was found that a large
number of cases had been discharged to other places, and consequently
no information had been received by this Authority.
The next Table shows the number of Poor Law cases notified
since 1900, the number dead, and the year in which death occurred
as well as the number of cases removed and recovered.

The above Table has been corrected from 1909, as inquiries
were made at the various Institutions with regard to cases notified
since that date, and it was ascertained that many of the cases which
had been kept on the register had removed, or had been discharged,
the address to which the patient had gone not being known.
Of the 1,053 cases notified since 1909, 478 or 45.4 per cent.
had died, 209 or nearly 19 per cent. had, as far as could be ascertained
removed outside the Borough, 10 or '95 per cent. had recovered,
leaving 356 or 33.8 per cent. alive at the close of 1912.
106 discharge certificates were received, 103 on Form C from
-Superintending Officers, and three on Form D from Relieving Officers.