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TUBERCULOSIS.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
NEW CASES during 1942. 404 fresh cases of tuberculosis came
to the notice of the Dispensary during the year. 305 of these
cases were primary notifications, 59 inward transfers, 9
posthumous notifications and 31 non-notified deaths obtained
from the local Registrar's returns. The distribution of these
cases in age groups distinguishing pulmonary and non-pulmonary
forms is set out in the following table.
Age
periods
Fresh Cases.
Respiratory
Non
Respiratory
F.
M.
F.
M.
Total
1
-
1
-
2
0...
1
5
1
5
12
1...
7
5
36
9
15
5...
121
10
267
15...
116
20
67
45...
50
16
-
1
1
20
65...
13
4
2
Total
157
24
29
404
194
MORTALITY during 1942. There were 130 deaths from all forms of
tuberculosis after correction for Inward and Outward Transfers,
equal to a death rate of 1.00 per 1,000 of population (1.31 per
1,000 in 1941). Of these 118 were pulmonary cases and 12 non-pulmonary
cases. The age groups in which these deaths occurred
appear in the sub-joined table.
Age
periods
Deaths.
Respiratory
Non
Respiratory
M.
F.
M.
F.
Total
-
-
-
-
-
0...
-
-
2
-
2
1...
1
2
5...
1
-
-
7
80
15...
41
30
2
-
35
45...
28
7
-
11
65...
9
2
-
-
6.