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Comments on Foregoing Table.
The organs most often attacked in descending order of
incidence are : In the males—the Bowels and Rectum (27.6 per
cent.), the Stomach (20.4 per cent.), the Lungs (9.8 per cent.),
the Prostate (7.6 per cent.), and the Tongue and Mouth (7.1 per
cent.); in females—the Bowels and Rectum (19.0 per cent.), the
Breast (18.6 per cent.), the Stomach and the Uterus (both 13.0
per cent.)
THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS.
I am indebted to Dr. J. C. McMillan, the Assistant Medical
Officer of Health for Tuberculosis, for the statistical part of this
section of the report.
Notification of Tuberculosis.
Two hundred and forty-one cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
and 59 cases of Xon-pulmonary Tuberculosis were
notified on Form A (primary notifications); of these 135 males
and 106 females were pulmonary cases; 26 males and 33 females
non-pulmonary. In addition, 67 pulmonary cases and 16 nonpulmonary
came to our notice as new cases otherwise than by
notification.
The total number of new cases of Tuberculosis coming to
the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year
1943 by notification or otherwise was 383, as compared with 323
in 1942, and 286 in 1941.
308 of these were cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 179 in
males and 129 in females. There were 39 more cases of
Pulmonary Tuberculosis in males and 2 fewer in females than
in 1942.
There were 24 cases of Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis among
children under 15 years as compared with 21 in 1942. The
number of cases in adults was 51, compared with 31 in 1942.
Of the cases notified in 1943, 19 males and 11 females died
from the Pulmonary form of the disease during the year, equal
to 12.4 per cent, of those notified, and 3 males and 5 females
from the Non-pulmonary form.
The incidence rate of Tuberculosis of all forms was 1.92 per
1,000 of the population; for Pulmonary Tuberculosis 1.54, and
for Xon-pulmonary 0.38 per 1,000 population. The notification
rate was 1.50 per 1,000. In 1942 the corresponding figures were
1.65, 1.39, 0.27 and 1.21 per 1,000.