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while 17 other deaths were registered as due to some other
tuberculous complaint.
In regard to Tuberculosis the Council have passed a
resolution by which Pulmonary Tuberculosis is now voluntarily
notifiable. I am glad to find that this has been done
because I have in several previous annual reports invited
practitioners to voluntarily notify cases of tuberculosis to
me, and I have offered them assistance in regard to disinfection
in relation thereto. I cannot say that these offers have
been taken advantage of on comparing applications for disinfection
with the number of deaths from tuberculosis.
The Local Government Board have also issued an Order,
which took effect from the first of this year, whereby it
became compulsory to notify Pulmonary Tuberculosis in
the case of a poor person who is an inmate of a Poor Law
Institution to the Medical Officer of Health for the area in
which the poor person resided prior to his admission into that
Institution.
I doubt whether voluntary notification of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis will be productive of such benefits as the Council
anticipate. I am of opinion that good results could be
•obtained by including all cases of Tuberculosis with discharges,
together with such cases of the disease as are liable to cause
contagion in the list of diseases which are compulsorily notifiable.
The effort which was made by the Council to obtain
the sanction of the Local Government Board to compulsory
notification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis some years ago, with
so little success, perhaps, with advantage to the District, might
be repeated once again in relation to all cases of Tuberculosis
with the above mentioned characteristics.