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† Primary notifications of persons notified during life to be suffering from tuberculosis.
From the above table it will be seen that the disease commonly attacks people at the period of
their maximum value to the home, the family and the nation. Apart from causing deaths of
persons in the prime of life, it handicaps many by reducing their working capacity for several years
before death.

It will be seen that whilst the notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1925 were one less in
number than in the preceding year, the deaths show an increase of 14 over 1924 and of 17 over
1923, with the result that the death rate from this form of tuberculosis has increased slightly. It
is, however, the lowest death rate on record with the exception of that for each of the preceding two
years.
Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis are exposed to a very serious risk if they contract even a
mild attack of pneumonia or influenza and it is probable that the increase in the number of deaths
is due to the prevalence of both diseases throughout the year, particularly the latter part thereof.
The figures for non-pulmonary tuberculosis continue to show that steady decline which has
been noted since 1917.