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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 tables appended
hereto, from which it will be seen that 220 new cases of
Tuberculosis were notified under the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations. In addition, there were
29 cases which came to my knowledge other than by
notification, 19 of these being after death, making a
total of 249 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, 1928, was 1,326. The
details are given in the table on pages 65-68.
During the year the Registrar-General reported
105 deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and 18 deaths
from other tuberculous diseases.

The notifications received during the year will be
seem from the following tables:—