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Ten cases were not notified during life. Of these, six were
certified by the Coroner, after a post-mortem examination; seven
cases died in hospital and one in a nursing home.
Where patients have not been notified during their lifetime
a visit is paid by the Tuberculosis Health Visitor to the home
of the deceased, to obtain particulars of the contacts and to
endeavour to persuade them to attend the Clinic for examination.
In 1953 the death-rate from all forms of Tuberculosis was
0.15 per 1,000 population.
The rate for Respiratory Tuberculosis was 0.12 and the rate
for Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis 0.02. Similar figures for 1952
were 0.208 and 0.008.
Respiratory Tuberculosis.
In 1953 the total number of deaths decreased by approximately
40 per cent., compared with 1952, there being a decrease in
males of 36.8 per cent. and a decrease in females of 50 per cent.
80 per cent. of the total deaths occurred in the age groups 45 and
over, and 16 per cent. in the age groups 20—44 years. There was
again no death amongst children of school age.
The one death which occurred under the age of 5 years was
in a baby of four weeks old. The mother was suffering from
Miliary Tuberculosis and the child was infected in utero, and
constituted one of the extremely rare cases of true congenital
tuberculosis.