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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 83
The next Table shows the number of cases notified, the number
which died, removed, and recovered during the years 1913, 1914 and
1915, and the number still remaining on the register at the end of
1915.

N.B.—The figures for 1913 do not correspond with the number of cases
notified as four cases of other forms of Tuberculosis notified in 1913
were in 1914 notified as suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. One
case of other forms of Tuberculosis notified in 1913 and one in 1914
were notified in 1915 as suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Table XLV. is a summary of notifications during the period
from the 4th January, 1915, to the 1st January, 1916.
It will be seen that 611 primary notifications of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis were made on Form A, 314 of males and 297 of females,
while the total notifications were 835. 12 cases were notified by
School Medical Officers on Form B, seven of males and five of
females, while 173 notifications from Poor Law Institutions and
203 from Sanatoria were made on Form C.
The number of notifications on Form B by School Medical
Officers is exceptionally small.
From other forms of Tuberculosis 224 were notified on Form A,
10 by School Medical Officers on Form B, while 26 were notified
from Poor Law Institutions and five from Sanatoria on Form C.
It may be stated that notifications on Form A are primary
notifications, i.e., cases not previously notified. Form B are notifications
from School Medical Officers, and Form C are secondary
notifications from Poor Law Institutions and Sanatoria on entering
such Institutions.