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During 1935 deaths from Tuberculosis registered as belonging
to the Borough of Battersea numbered 126, 112 (i.e. 88.9 per cent.)
being due to pulmonary tuberculosis, 8 (i.e. 6.3 per cent.) to
tubercular meningitis and 6 (i.e. 4.8 percent.) to other forms of the
disease.
The allocation of the deaths in 1935 according to age and sex,
and in the Wards and Sub-Districts is shown on pages 56 and 57,
while the chart on the following page shows the death-rates from
tuberculosis since 1901.
Of the fatal cases 13 were notified within one month before
death ; in 19 cases the notifications were received after death, and
8 cases were not formally notified.
Of the 8 cases in respect of which no primary notification
was received 7 were patients who died in hospitals or other institutions.
Of the 19 cases notified after death 9 (5 pulmonary, 4 nonpulmonary)
were from Public Assistance Institutions ; 7 cases
(3 pulmonary, 4 non-pulmonary) died in other hospitals, and the
remaining cases (pulmonary) died at home.

It will be seen from the foregoing table that (except during the
war years) there has been a steady decline in the mortality rate
from Tuberculosis.