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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 154 new cases of Tuberculosis
were notified under the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations. In addition 1 posthumous notification
was received making a total of 155 certificates. Information
was also received from the Register-General
or from the Local Registrars of the deaths of 9 persons
who had died from Tuberculosis but who had not been
notified under the Regulations. During the year 18
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, 1934, was 1,309.
The details are given in the table on pages 81 and 82.
During the year there were registered 74 deaths
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and 7 deaths from
other tuberculous diseases.