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Class II.
Constitutional Diseases—Tuberculous Disease. —The deaths
from this cause during the year numbered 499, which is equivalent to
an annual mortality of 2.2 per 1,000 living. Below is a table
showing the number of deaths from the various forms of this disease
during the years 1894 to 1901 inclusive.

In the month of July of last year the British Congress on Tuberculosis
met in London, and passed the following resolutions:—
1— That tuberculous sputum is the main agent for the conveyance of the
virus of tuberculosis from man to man, and that indiscriminate
spitting should therefore be suppressed.
2—That it is the opinion of this Congress that all public hospitals and
dispensaries should present every patient suffering from phthisis with
a leaflet containing instructions with regard to the prevention of
consumption, and should supply and insist on the proper use of a
pocket spittoon.