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59
Brought forward 53
Family or personal—Other inmates of house
and friends 4
Workplace 7
Public house or licensed restaurant 23
Milk 1
Army and Navy 4
Hospital 1
93
Five who died were engaged in the liquor traffic as
potmen, etc. Several had been out of work some time, one for
four years.
Local Government Board's Circular re Tuberculosis. This
circular was issued by the Local Government Board on the
18th December, 1908. I reported fully on the circular to the
Public Health Committee on the 8th January, 1909, and the
report was printed in the Council's Minutes.
The circular requires notification of pulmonary tuberculosis
by Medical Officers of the Poor Law Infirmaries and District
Medical Officers. It further authorises Sanitary Authorities
to furnish for the use of poor persons suffering from Consumption
any appliances, apparatus, or utensils, which will be
of assistance for the purpose of protection against the spread
of infection. Apparently the circular has in view such conveniences
as beds and bedding, and additional bedrooms, which
would enable consumptive persons to be properly isolated. On
October 27th I recommended that a poor consumptive, who
with a wife and six children was occupying two bedrooms,
should be provided with an additional bed and bedroom. The
Public Health Committee decided, however, to take no action.