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in sympathy with the promotion of measures for the prevention of
Tuberculosis, and had entertained favourably applications by Boards of
Guardians for sanction to expenditure on provision of separate accommodation
for Consumption in Poor Law Institutions and on Sanatoria ; but it is evident
they were greatly concerned with the heavy expenditure at issue in the case of
the Metropolis.
SPITTING NOTICES.
The cautionary Notices against spitting first issued by the Corporation in
1902 have been found most useful in checking the disgusting practice of
expectoration, and are in considerable demand by employers of labour, who
are supplied with them free of charge for exhibition on their premises.
NOTIFICATION OF PHTHISIS.
A system of voluntary notification of Phthisis by medical men has been
in operation in the City since 1902, and although the cases notified have been
necessarily few in number, owing to the small resident population, the
recognition of this disorder as an infectious disease has not been without an
educational value in directing attention to the advisability of the disinfection
not only of the premises in which the disease has terminated fatally, but also
of the need for taking precautionary measures by disinfection, &c., from time
to time, of the offices and other places where consumptives are employed.