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(a) Administration of the Tuberculosis Regulations. Notifications.
The 1912 Regulations provide for the notification
of tuberculosis by general practitioners, school medical
officers, and superintendents of institutions on admission and
discharge of patients. During the year 399 notifications
were received, but 99 of these related to cases which had been
notified previously. The nett number was 300. In addition
to these cases, however, the Department had knowledge of
30 other new cases from other Medical Officers of Health and
from the death returns. The total number of new cases was
330. Secondary notifications, on forms C and D, are not
included in these figures. In Table No. 64 will be found the
age and sex distribution of the new notified cases.
The distribution of disease in the various cases notified
each year since 1921 was as follows:—

The 1921 Regulations require the Medical Officer of Health
to revise quarterly the register of notifications, and, as soon
as he is aware that a notified case has removed permanently
to another area, notify the Medical Officer of Health of that
area of the case. In accordance with this duty 19 notifications
were sent to other medical officers and 10 notifications were
received.