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Voluntary notification of consumption obtains in 18 Metropolitan
Districts (including Lambeth), and the time appears ripe
for the extension of such a voluntary system to the 11 remaining
Metropolitan Districts, and for making it compulsory upon
the authorities of Metropolitan Hospitals and Dispensaries to
notify all phthisical patients (names and addresses) attending
their institutions to the medical officers of the sanitary authorities
concerned. This would be a useful step in advance. Arrangements
should also be made for the isolation or segregation in
sanatoria of all advanced cases, which are a source of such
danger to others living in the same rooms. This isolation or
segregation might, with advantage, be made compulsory by
new legislation.
EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA.
During 1906, 42 deaths were registered from Influenza in the
Borough of Lambeth, as compared with 50 during 1905, and an
average of 107.5 for ten years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of
Lambeth. Of the 42 deaths, 8 were registered during the
first, 11 during the second, 4 during the third, and 19 during the
fourth quarter, of the year.
In London, there were registered 895 deaths (uncorrected)
from Influenza during 1906.
Reviewing the past ten years' history of the old Parish of
Lambeth in relation to Epidemic Influenza, it will be seen
that the disease has been practically epidemic since 1891, rising
to the maximum in 1892, 1895, 1899, and 1900. The yearly
average for ten years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of Lambeth
is 107.5, so that the 1906 statistics for the new Borough of
Lambeth show a sub-epidemic state.