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74
TUBERCULOSIS.
Tuberculosis of all kinds is notifiable, and particulars of the notification certificates received during
the year are set out in the tables appended hereto, from
which it will be seen that 149 new cases of Tuberculosis
were notified under the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations. In addition 3 posthumous notifications
were received making a total of 152 certificates. Information was also received from the Register-General
or from the Local Registrars of the deaths of 17 persons
who had died from Tuberculosis but who had not been
notified under the Regulations. During the year 25
persons who had been notified in other Boroughs to be
suffering from Tuberculosis took up their residence in
this Borough.
The number of patients remaining on the Tuberculosis Register at the 31st December, 1933, was 1,330.
The details are given in the table on page 77.
During the year there were registered 74 deaths
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and 14 deaths from
other tuberculous diseases.

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