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TUBERCULOSIS.
The Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1925, came into operation during 1925. These Regulations
prohibit any person from entering into any employment in connection
with a dairy if he knows he is suffering from Tuberculosis of
the respiratory tract. They also empower the Local Authority to
give notice to a person so suffering requiring him to discontinue
his employment in the milk trade if he is in an infectious state.
During the year 1926 four cases were reported to the Public
Health Committee. All these cases have ceased to be employed
in the milk trade and are now under treatment.
In addition to the cases mentioned above, another milk
roundsman presented himself for examination at the Dispensary
and was found to be suffering from Tuberculosis of the Lungs.
As he is no longer resident in the Borough, his records have been
transferred to the district concerned.
Notification.— The total number of new cases of Tuberculosis
which came to the notice of the Medical Officer of Health
during 1926 was 706, as compared with 643 in 1925, 692 in 1924,
597 in 1923 and 543 in 1922.

Compared with 1925, there is a very marked increase in the
numbers of patients who have been transferred from other
sanitary authorities. This increase is due in great part to the