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Under the same Section, the Board, by Regulations issued
in 1912, made it compulsory on the Medical Officers of all
Public Hospitals and Public Dispensaries to notify cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis attending such institutions, and in
November, by further regulations, made the notification of
this disease compulsory on all medical practitioners. The
regulations also authorise local authorities to supply all
such medical and other assistance, and all such facilities and
articles, as may reasonably be required for the detection of
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.
Notification Statistics. 675 cases were notified, viz.:—
Tubercle of Lung, 532; tuberculosis meningitis, 3; tuberculosis
of the intestines and peritoneum, 8; other forms, 132.
It is seen that the deaths from tuberculosis of the meninges
and the abdomen exceeded the notifications. "When deaths
occurred in cases not already notified the medical man
certifying was communicated with.
The 532 cases of phthisis compare with 206, 196, 375,
and 689, in the four preceding years. 17 of these were in
the Woolwich and Eltham Poor Law Infirmaries; 9 others
were notified by the District Medical Officers of the Poor
Law Union, 21 by the Medical Officers of the Royal Arsenal,
Army, &c., 396 from hospitals and dispensaries, including 313
from the Woolwich Tuberculosis Dispensary, 33 by school
doctors, and the remainder by private medical practitioners.