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TUBERCULOSTS
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS 1930.
NEW CASES during 1945. Three hundred and twenty fresh cases of Tuberculesis
come to the notice of the Dispensary during the year. Two
hundred and fifty seven of these cases ware primary notifications 47
inward transfers, 4 posthumous notifications and 12 non-notified death
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.
0 - 1
-
-
-
-
-
1 - 5
2
5
1
4
12
5 - 15
5
9
3
7
24
15 - 45
111
80
9
11
211
45 - 65
11
1
42
3
57
65 -
10
5
-
1
16
Total
170
104
20
320
26
MORTALITY during 1945.There were 126 deaths from all forms of tuberculosis
after correction for inward and outward transfers, equal to a
death rate of 0.93 per 1000 of population (0.84 per 1000 in 1944). Of
these, 118 were pulmonary cases and 8 non-pulmonary 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.
-
1
0 - 1
-
-
1
1 - 5
-
-
3
3
-
5 - 15
-
-
1
1
-
30
15 - 45
39
1
-
70
45 - 65
30
9
1
-
40
65 -
5
5
1
-
11
Total
65
53
4
4
126
9.