The Compulsory Notification of Phthisis
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I AM one of the practitioners of medicine in Edinburgh who believe that in the causation of phthisis, infection is a factor of such relatively small importance that the compulsory notification of this disease as an infectious disease is, in the majority of cases, quite unnecessary. I am, further, one of those who hold that its compulsory notification in all cases would be mischievous, as diverting attention from the most important factors in its causation, and would be harsh and cruel to the
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Notes on the Voluntary Notification of Phthisis, and on the Municipal Attitude in Bristol in Regard to the Disease
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