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the disease, and for preventing the spread of infection, and
removing conditions favourable to infection, and they may
appoint such officers as may be necessary.
Under a further order all forms of tuberculosis were made
notifiable in January, 1913.
689 cases were notified last year, compared with 154, 206
196, and 375, in the four preceding years. 30 of these were in
the Woolwich and Eltham Poor Law Infirmaries; 20 others
were notified by the District Medical Officers of the Poor Law
Union, 14 by the Medical Officers of the Royal Arsenal, 457
from hospitals and dispensaries, including 427 from the
Woolwich Tuberculosis Dispensary, 10 by school doctors,
and the remainder by private medical practitioners.
£53 14s. 9d. was paid during the year for the notification
of phthisis.
Duration. Of the 689 cases notified during 1912, at least
69 have since died, and of 375 notified during 1911 at least
116 have since died (February, 1913).
73. The source of infection of the notified cases was
probably as follows:—
Family or Personal—Father, 65; mother,
64 ; brother, 49; sister, 33; husband, 14;
wife, 8; other members of family, 29;
friends, lodgers, etc., 11 273
Workshop and Office 22
Public House 23
Navy and Army 2
Milk 4
Club 1
School 4
Undetermined 360