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The voluntary notification of consumption has been adopted by all the cities
and boroughs of the metropolis except Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Stepney,
and Poplar, in the east; and Deptford and Camberwell in the south.
The Local Government Board has made Regulations, dated December 18th,
1908, to come into force on January 1st, 1909, for preventing the spread of
Tuberculosis, including Pulmonary Tuberculosis. The Regulations have been
made under Section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Public Health
Act, 1896, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. These Regulations
require the Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution and a District Medical
Officer to notify within forty-eight hours of coming to his knowledge every
case of pulmonary tuberculosis to the Medical Officer of Health of the area
in which the uatient resides or resided previous to admission to a Poor Law
Institution. They also require the Superintending Officer of a Poor Law
Institution and a Relieving Officer, in regard to every person certified to be
suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, to notify the place of destination of a
patient removed from a Poor Law Institution or from his present address,
to the Medical Officer of Health of the area in which the new residence of the
patient is situated.
The effect of these Regulations during the first three months of their
operation is shown in the following tables, extracted from my Report of the
first quarter of 1909 :—