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milk, and for fifteen years the inhabitants have been advised
to make, and have to a large extent made, a practice of boiling
all milk before consumption.
The London County Council now has powers which should
lead to the cessation of the sale of tuberculous milk.
74. 101 of those who died from phthisis were males, and
55 females. In 1905 there were 110 males and 75 females;
in 1906, 97 males and 67 females; and in 1907, 82 males and
72 females.
75. The source of infection was attributed in 81 deaths
from tuberculosis, with more or less probability, as follows:—
Family or personal— Father 19
Husband 1
Mother 15
Brother 3
Sister 2
Other relatives 4
Other inmates of house
and friends 3
Workplace 13
Public House or Licensed Restaurant 16
Milk 5
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Two who died were engaged in the liquor traffic as potmen.
Several had been out of work some time, one for four years.
76. Notifications.— Voluntary notification of phthisis has
now been in force in the Borough for seven years. 154 cases
were notified last year, compared with 145, 176 and 150, in
the three preceding years. 46 of these were in the Poor Law