HC Deb 13 June 1910 vol 17 cc1041-2
Mr. WILLIAM YOUNGER

asked the Lord Advocate if he can state how many local authorities in Scotland in burghs and counties, respectively, have added pulmonary phthisis to the list of compulsory notifiable diseases under the Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1889; and how many cases were notified in 1909?

The LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. Ure)

The Local Government Board have approved the orders of forty-one burghal local authorities and of thirty-three landward local authorities extending the provisions of the Act referred to by the hon. Member to pulmonary phthisis; 1,902 cases of phthisis were notified in the year 1909.