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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
Diphtheria - negative 168, positive 6
Tuberculosis - negative 99,positive 30
TUBERCULOSIS
Pulmonary: 154 new cases, including 8 transfers and 10 non-notified
deaths.
Non-pulmonary: 26 new cases, including 1 transfer and 2 non-notified
deaths.
(1939 - Pulmonary: 166 new cases. Non-pulmonary 26 new cases).

Deaths from Tuberculosis:-
Pulmonary 62; Non-pulmonary 10 Death rate per 1,000 - 0.83.
WORK OF TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY 1940.
Throughout the year the Dispensary continued to afford to
its patients all the facilities that are available in times of peace.
Owing to war conditions, however, the number taking advantage of the
Dispensary was considerably lower than the normal. Only 73 new cases
were diagnosed as suffering from Tuberculosis, 11 of these being cases
of non-pulmonary tuberculosis.
This represents considerably less than half the normal number
of new cases considered definitely tubercular, and other figures at
the Dispensary show a corresponding decrease, most marked in the final
quarter of the year when the City was subjected to severe and repeated
bombing.
The dearease in the Dispensary figures should therefore be
considered a reflection of war-time conditions rather than an indicate
of a decline in the incidence of the disease which, indeed, appears to
show some increase throughout the country.
The population of the City has decreased markedly as a
result of the call to the colours, changes in centres of employment,
and the evacuation both of families and business houses. Evacuation;
in particular, has greatly reduced the number likely to attend the
Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Persons in poor health are likely to join in a move to the
qountry, and many of the long-standing patients left the City to live
with relatives or friends in quieter districts.
The evacuation of school children made a marked decrease
in the number of children attending, both as patients and as contacts.
One case of Tuberculosis in childhood was found in the last quarter of
the year.