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safeguards, but I have not found it necessary during 1925
to act in any case.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1925.
These are important regulations, and Section 4 reads
as follows:—
"No person who is aware that he is suffering from
tuberculosis of the respiratory tract shall enter upon any
employment or occupation in connection with a dairy which
would involve the milking of cows, the treatment of milk,
or the handling of vessels used for containing milk."
At present no notified case is engaged in the milk trade.
Non=notifiable Infectious Diseases.
These are in the main measles, whooping cough, and
chicken-pox. There are many other infectious states of no
less importance and often of serious import in physical deterioration
of the patient. The common cold, the acute
tonsilitis, and the so-called influenza are sources of great loss
of employment and efficiency, and how often the patient
forgets the infectiousness of his disability and carelessly
passes his disease to other non-immune persons. The new
slogan—and it is the age of slogans—"cover your mouth
when you cough"—is only part of the campaign against the
spread of these diseases.
The main, sources of our information of the presence of
measles and whooping cough are through the Maternity and
Child Welfare Service and the School Medical Service, and
serious cases are referred to the nursing association for
district nursing.
An infectious disease nurse is not employed by the Corporation,
but at times of epidemics I am sure such an