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(m) An agreement with the School Treatment Committee for the provision
of dental treatment.
(n) An agreement with the London Hospital for Finsen light treatment of
lupus.
(o) An agreement with the Brompton Hospital for the induction of artificial
pneumo.thorax.
(p) The formation of a Care Committee.
(q) Institutional treatment through the London County Council.
Details of the Council's Tuberculosis service are given in the following pages
under letters corresponding to those set out above. Before dealing with them,
however, it is convenient to deal with the mortality statistics.
Deaths.—The deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis during 1930 numbered 150,
giving a death rate of 106 per 1,000 of the population. The corresponding figures
for 1929 were 143 and 101 respectively. Deaths from other forms of tuberculosis
numbered 15, as against 16 in the preceding year, the death rate being 0T1 per
1,000 of the population. The total number of deaths from tuberculosis during the
year was 165, and the combined mortality rate 117. The deaths and death.rates
from tuberculosis, classified by type of disease, annually, since 1912, have been as
follows:—

In addition to the 165 deaths mentioned above, five persons who had been
notified as suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis died during the year, and detailed
information as to these is given in the following Table, No. 63: