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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The following table has been prepared with a view to learning whether the London figures give
any indication that phthisis mortality is declining more rapidly in districts inhabited by poor persons
or in those whose inhabitants are better circumstanced. Comparison is made between the deathrates
of three groups of districts in the two periods 1901-5 and 1906-10, the "social condition" of
the inhabitants of the districts being judged by the proportion of the child population—5-14
years—attending elementary schools.
Thus Group I. includes districts with less than 87 per cent, of children scheduled as of the
elementary school class.
„ II. includes districts with 87-97 per cent, of children scheduled as of the elementary
school class.
„ III. includes districts with over 97 per cent, of children scheduled as of the elemen-
tarv school class.

The figures do not afford any indication of the sort mentioned.
Under the regulations as to tuberculosis made by the Local Government Board, medical officers
of health receive notification of all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis occurring in poor law practices.
Regulations made in March, 1911, extend the requirement of notification to cases receiving medical
attendance at hospitals, dispensaries, and similar institutions, and further require the medical officers
of health of London sanitary districts to send weekly to the medical officer of health of the county lists
of the cases of which they receive notification.
The annual reports of medical officers of health contain information relating to notifications
in 1910 from which the following table has been prepared.