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The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, which came
into force on the 1st January, 1909, first made tuberculosis notifiable,
but the requirement was limited to pulmonary cases occurring
among Poor Law patients Further regulations in 1911 made notification
of all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis compulsory, and a
year later this was extended to all forms of the disease.
The chart below indicates the progress made in Tottenham during
the past half century in reducing the mortality rate for both pulmonary
and non pulmonary tuberculosis It would appear that prior
to the issue of the 1908 regulations, many cases which are now
classified as pulmonary, were included among those then described
as "tuberculosis other than phthisis."