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CEREBRO SPINAL FEVER.
One case of this disease was notified, that of a child three
years of age, and was removed to St. Mary's Hospital for
treatment. The child had been ailing about five months.
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER
TUBERCULAR DISEASES.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis numbered 29,
producing a Mortality Rate of .65 per 1,000.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis and other
Tubercular Diseases numbered 32, producing a Mortality
Rate of .72 per 1,000.
On 1st February, 1913, the new Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1912, framed by the Local Government
Board, came into operation.
This Order consolidated and amended the previous Orders
made in 1908 and 1911.
The new Regulations apply to Non-Pulmonary as well as
to Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and made these diseases notifiable
on prescribed forms A.B.C.D.
Primary Notifications were notifiable on Form A, and
Supplementary Notifications of old cases on Forms C and D,
and School cases of Form B.
Supplementary Notifications of old cases would be made
when the patient entered or was discharged from a Sanatorium,
Hospital, or Poor Law Institution.
During the year I received 171 Primary Notifications and
43 Supplementary Notifications.
Of the 171 Primary Cases notified, 121 were Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, and 50 were other Tubercular Diseases. 74 were
males, and 97 females.