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said lease except the last two days thereof, at such rent
and on such proper terms and conditions as may be
agreed upon between the Trustees and the Council, of
which underlease the Council shall execute a counterpart.
(c) The Borough Council shall take over the department as
a going concern, with the staff employed in working
the same, subject to the terms of the several engagements
entered into by them with the Committee, and
shall purchase and pay the Trustees for the fixtures,
fittings, and apparatus as then existing, and used in
connection with the department, at such price as may
bo agreed upon between the Trustees and the Council.
(d) Any dispute or failure to agree upon any of the foregoing
terms of transfer shall be settled by arbitration
under the Arbitration Act, 1889.
II. This Agreement as regards the Trustees is provisional only, and
shall not bind the Dispensary unless and until confirmed by
resolutions of the Committee and the Trustees.
On the 16th April, 1913, the Council appointed the following representatives
on the Committee of Management of the Tuberculosis Dispensary:—
Councillors G. Blount, Dr. K. II. A. Kellie, A. Davis, A. II. Edwards,
G. Gardner, and the Rev. Z. B. Woffendale.
Notification.—The compulsory notification of pulmonary tuberculosis has
been progressive, and has come about in the following stages :—(1) the
Regulations of 1908 which required Poor Law cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
to be notified ; (2) the Regulations of 1911, which required hospital cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis to be notified; and (3) the further Regulations of
1911, which required all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis to be notified.
During the past year 1,772 certificates were received under these Regulations,
including 806 from the Poor Law. The number of deaths was 326, as
compared with 330, 297, and 374 during the three preceding years respectively.
On the 20th December, 1912, the Local Government Board issued a further
series of Regulations which consolidate and amend those above mentioned.
These Regulations came into force on the 1st February, 1913, and apply to
non-pulmonary as well as to pulmonary tuberculosis. During 1912 the
number of deaths from all forms of tuberculosis was 399.
Compulsory notification has therefore proceeded by stages to its completion.
Borough Scheme.—The St. Pancras scheme for the control, treatment, and
prevention of tuberculosis works out thus :—
1.—All cases diagnosed are medically certified to the Medical Officer of
Health.
2.—To all cases certified a card of advice is sent.