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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. 498 cases were notified (excluding
second notifications), viz.:—Tubercle of Lung, 400; tuberculous
meningitis, 16; tuberculosis of the intestines and
peritoneum, 6; other forms, 76. 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 communica'ted with.
The 400 cases of phthisis compare with 196, 375, 689,
and 532, in the four preceding years. 28 of these were in
the Woolwich and Eltham Poor Law Infirmaries; 3 others
were notified by the District Medical Officers of the Poor
Law Union, 41 by the Medical Officers of the Royal Arsenal,
Army, &c., 188 from hospitals and dispensaries, including 154
from the Woolwich Tuberculosis Dispensary, and the remainder
by private medical practitioners.
£31 18s. 3d. was paid during the year for the notification
of tuberculosis.
Turation. Of the 498 cases notified during 1914, at least
108 have since died, and of 675 cases notified during 1913,
at least 135 have since died (February, 1915).
71. The source of infection of the notified cases was
probably as follows:—