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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 141 new cases of
Tuberculosis were notified under the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations.
Information was also received from the RegistrarGeneral
or from the Local Registrars of the deaths
of 7 persons who had died from Tuberculosis but who
had not been notified under the Regulations. During
the year 24 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, 1935, was
1,268. The details are given in the table on pages
77 and 78.
During the year there were registered 59 deaths
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and 4 deaths from
other tuberculous diseases.
The number of deaths from Tuberculosis of all
kinds during the past few years is as follows:—
Pulmonary
Non-Pulmonary
Total
1925
121
21
142
1926
121
20
141
1927
115
17
132
1928
105
18
123
1929
109
10
119
1930
96
12
108
1931
119
13
132
1932
99
11
110
1933
74
14
88
1934
74
7
81