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34 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Deaths.—The total number of deaths certified as due to diseases
of a tuberculous nature was 319—of whom 163 were males, and
156 females. Of the 319 deaths, 269 were due to Pulmonary
Tuberculosis—22 to tuberculous disease of the brain—and 28 to
other forms of Tuberculosis.
Table XVIII. gives details regarding the type of the disease,
sex, and age grouping of these 319 deaths.
In addition to these deaths, which were duly certified in the
returns as due to Tuberculosis; 22 persons previously notified as
suffering from Tuberculosis died during the year. These deaths,
however, do not figure in Table XVIII. for the following reasons:—
(a) Twelve were certified as dying of diseases other than
Tuberculosis.
(b) Six notified persons were found, as a result of further
investigation, to be non-tuberculous, death being due to some other
cause.
(c) Four had previously moved outside the Borough and
died there, the deaths being credited to the areas in which death
occurred.
The following Table gives figures for the past ten years showing
both the number of deaths, and the death-rate per 1,000 from
Tuberculosis in the Borough. It will be seen that with the exception
of 1920, the Tuberculosis death-rate for 1923 is the lowest
recorded.