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TUBERCULOSIS.
Tuberculosis of all kinds is notifiable, and particulars
of the number of notification certificates received
during the year are set out in the table appended hereto,
from which it will be seen that 190 new cases of Tuberculosis
were notified under the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations. In addition, there were 36 cases
which came to my knowledge other than by notification,
22 of these being after death, making a total of 226 cases.
Since the introduction of the Regulations which
deal with the quarterly revision of the Tuberculosis
Register, it has been possible to estimate with a greater
degree of accuracy the prevalence of this disease in
the Borough. The number of cases remaining on the
Register at the 31st December, 1927, was 1,331. The
details are given in the table on pages 66 and 67.
During the year the Registrar-General reported
115 deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and 17
deaths from other tuberculous diseases.