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49
Brought forward 64
Workplace 11
School 4
Hospital 1
Public House or licensed Restaurant 24
Milk 3
Total 107
Occupation.— 5 who died were engaged in the liquor traffic.
Loss of work was spoken of in several cases as contributing to
illness and death.
79. Notifications.—Voluntary notification of Phthisis has now
been in force in the Borough for five years. 176 cases were
notified compared with 189, 167, and 145 in three preceding
years. 29 of these were in the Poor-Law Infirmary, 19 others
were notified by the District Medical Officers of the Poor-Law
Unions, 34 by the Medical Officers of the Royal Arsenal, and the
remainder by clergymen, philanthropic societies, applicants for
admission to the Peppard Sanatorium, and by private medical
practitioners. £11 6s. 6d., was paid during the year for the
notification of Phthisis.
Duration.—Of the 176 cases notified during 1906, at least 45
have since died, and of 145 notified during 1905, at least 59
have since died (February 15th, 1907.)
80. The source of infection of the notified cases was probably
as follows :—
Family or personal, 44 viz.—
Father 12, Mother 10, Brother 8,
Sister 4, Husband 1, Wife 2,
Other members of family, 1,
Friends, lodgers, neighbours 6,
(including two friends nursed.)
Workshop and Office 15
Public House 27
School 2
Navy and Army 7
Undetermined 81
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