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NEW ZEALAND—TUBERCULOSIS (ALL FORMS). Table showing Number, and Rate per 10,000 of Population, of Deaths from all Forms of Tuberculosis in each of the Four Chief Cities, with their Suburbs, for each of the Years 1901 to 1911 inclusive.

M. Fraser, Government Statistician. Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 15th November, 1912.

RESOLUTIONS OF CONFERENCE : SUMMARY. 1. That compulsory notification of all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis be carried out. 2. That the medical practitioner be requested to state on the notification form whether a visit by the Sanitary Inspector is desirable or not. 3. That such intimation shall not prevent the District Health Officer taking such steps as he may deem necessary, by inspection or otherwise, but that in all such cases where he proposes further action the District Health Officer shall duly acquaint the notifying medical practitioner of his intention. 4. That where possible the medical practitioner to have the right to enlist the services of a district or dispensary nurse where such officer is appointed in the hospital district concerned. 5. That it be a recommendation to those controlling dispensaries to enlist the sympathies of medical practitioners in the direction of the examination of contacts. 6. That it be a recommendation of this Conference to Hospital Boards that they adopt a uniform form of inquiry, relating more particularly to family history of patients and their sanitary environments. 7. That by regulation under or amendment of the Public Health Act the onus of notifying the Department of the removal of a consumptive patient from one house to another to be placed on the householder, and that, pending such amendment or regulation, the District Health Officers take such steps as they may consider necessary to bring about this notification in a voluntary manner. 8. That the Public Health Act be amended to provide for the compulsory detention of a patient who refuses to conform to the health rules of an institution of which he is an inmate, such detention to be made on the order of a Magistrate on the representation of the Medical Superintendent concerned. 9. That the attention of the Railway Department be drawn to the insanitary condition of the carriages, owing to their lack of ventilation and cleanliness. 10. That it be a recommendation to the Licensing Committees that periodical cleansing of hotels be carried out. 11. That the Public Health Act be amended to provide for the inspection of boardinghouses, and their being subject to the same conditions now obtaining with regard to hotels under the Licensing Act as regards sanitation. 12. That this Conference recognizes the urgent necessity for a Town-planning Bill, and hopes that such an Act will be passed next session. 13. That the Public Health Act be amended to provide better facilities regarding removal or improvement of insanitary buildings. 14. That in the opinion of the Conference hospital accommodation for consumptives, either by means of special sanatoria, incurable wards, or annexes attached to our hospitals, be increased to 700 beds. 15. That in the'opinion of the Conference it is advisable, where sanatoria are in the immediate neighbourhood of our chief centres, to erect institutions for incurable patients in connection therewith; but where the sanatoria are far removed from the centres the best means to provide for incurable patients would be by special institutions, to be erected as near to the chief centres as possible.

Auckland and Suburbs. Wellington and Suburbs. Christ' Si shurch and iburbs. Dunedm and Suburbs. Year. Number Rate per of 10,000 of Deaths. : Population. I Number Rate per of 10,000 of Deaths. Population. Number Rate per of 10,000 of Deaths. Population. Number of Deaths. Rate per 10,000 of Population. 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 908 909 .910 911 50 53 61 55 49 52 66 52 58 44 51 9-963 10-141 10-985 9-657 8-393 7-953 9-419 7-009 7-523 5-482 6-124 80 (18 57 68 42 60 69 73 78 87 60 16-212 13-341 10-738 12-226 7-196 9-331 9-695 10-093 10-394 11-252 8-554 54 69 47 57 54 42 77 06 45 50 54 11-951 14-643 9-296 11-018 10-242 7-874 13-708 10-851 7-168 7-794 7-699 79 64 80 78 66 78 77 69 43 52 57 14-972 11-960 14-380 13-498 11-062 13-791 13-112 11-426 6-943 8-190 9-116