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and 4.0 in 1919. The notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis were proportionately
most numerous in Moorfields and least in Kingsland Ward, 2.6 and 1.2 per 1,000
respectively.
At the close of the year there were on the Tuberculosis Register at the Town
Hall the names of 1,695 persons, of whom 941 were males. Approximately the names
of 1.6 per cent, of the population were on the Register.
The report of Dr. Leitch which summarises the work carried out at the Tuberculosis
Dispensary during the year under consideration is appended( pp. 58-62). The
Tuberculosis Care Committee met on 19 occasions and dealt with some 311 cases.
Of these 133 were admitted to institutions. Of the cases under observation 57
terminated fatally. The useful character of the work carried out by this committee
has been referred to in previous reports.
The removals to hospitals, sanatoria and other institutions are given in Table II.
(Appendix). Of the deaths from consumption belonging to Shoreditch, approximately
65 per cent, occurred in public institutions within or without the Borough,
and of these 30 per cent, took place in St. Leonard's Hospital.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
The procedure in respect to the notification of the above disease was amended
by the Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations of July 31st, 1926.
Under these regulations, which came into operation on October 1st, 1926, midwives
are no longer required to notify. The duty of notifying cases of ophthalmia neonatorum
is placed solely upon the medical practitioner in charge of the cases.

The usual supervision was exercised through the Health Visitors for securing
proper treatment. Of the cases certified four were of a severe type. All recovered
without impairment of vision. A number of the cases received treatment at the
Moorfields Eye Hospital. Of the cases dealt with in hospital three went into
St. Margaret's Hospital, a special institution of the Metropolitan Asylums Board for