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TUBERCULOSIS
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1930.
NEW CASES during 1947. Four hundred and seventy-seven cases of
Tuberculosis came to the notice of the Dispensary during the year.
Three hundred and fifty-six of these cases were primary notifications,
89 inward transfers, 6 posthumous notifications and 26 non-notified
deaths obtained from the local Registrars' and the Registrar-General's
returns.
The distribution of the primary cases, in age groups, distinguishing
respiratory and non-respiratory forms is set out in the
following table.
Age
periods
Primary Notifications
Respiratory
Non-respiratory
Total
M
F
M
F
3
-
-
-
3
0 - 1
1 - 5
25
11
8
3
3
5 - 15
8
-
35
15
12
98
8
219
15 - 45
106
7
2
2
45 - 65
44
12
60
5
-
-
14
65 -
9
Totals
13
20
356
180
143
MORTALITY during 1947. There were 135 deaths from all forms of
Tuberculosis (after correction for inward and outward transfers)
equal to a death rate of 0.77 per 1000 of population (0.60 per
1000 in 1946). Of these 119 were respiratory cases and 16 nonrespiratory
cases. The age groups in which the so 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 - 5
2
-
4
7
1
-
5
1
8
5 - 15
2
15 - 45
-
2
64
30
32
45 - 65
31
8
-
1
40
65 -
10
-
1
3
14
76
9
Totals
43
7
135