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TUBERCULOSIS.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) R egulations, 1930.
NEW CASES during 1943. 336 fresh cases of Tuberculosis came to
the notice of the Dispensary during the year. 274 of these cases
were primary notifications, 44 inward transfers, 7 posthumous
notifications and 11 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
Total
M.
F.
M.
F.
2
-
-
-
2
0 - 1
2
11
1 - 5
4
1
4
6
5 - 15
8
8
5
27
16
15 - 45
97
97
15
225
9
54
45 - 65
41
2
2
5
1
17
10
1
65 -
162
120
27
27
336
Total
MORTALITY during 1943. There were 138 deaths from all forms of
tuberculosis after correction for Inward and Outward Transfers,
equal to a death rate of 1.04 per 1,000 of population (1.00 per
1,000 in 1942). Of these, 119 were pulmonary cases and 19 nonpulmonary
cases. The age groups in which these deaths occurred
appear in the sub-joined table.
Age
periods.
Deaths.
Respiratory
Non
Respiratory
Total
M.
F.
M.
F.
0 - 1
-
1
-
-
1
-
2
1
3
1 - 5
-
1
2
7
5 - 15
-
4
4
6
76
41
25
15 - 45
32
4
1
1
38
45 - 65
10
13
65 -
3
-
-
Total
10
138
83
36
9