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Tuberculosis nevertheless still takes a serious toll of human
life. We hear much to-day of deaths due to road accidents,
Tuberculosis claims nearly five times as many victims in a year.
Much effort therefore, remains to be expended if the present
trend is to be maintained.
Notifications.—Notifications were received during the year
in respect of 104 pulmonary and 7 non-pulmonary cases, representing
an incidence of 1.08 per 1000 population for the pulmonary
and .07 for the non-pulmonary forms of the disease.
At the end of 1937, the Notification Register (*) consisted of
646 cases as compared with 647 cases in 1936. The total is made
up as follows :—
Adults. Children. Total.
Males. Females.
Pulmonary 254 200 44 498
Non-Pulmonary 30 37 81 148
( *) N.B.-—There is always a discrepancy between the Notification
Register and the Dispensary Register, e.g., a case not
desirous of Public Medical Treatment appears on the Notification
Register, but not on the Dispensary Register.
Deaths.—Deaths during 1937 numbered 79, representing a
rate of .82 per 1000 population for all forms of the disease. The
pulmonary type accounted for 73 of the deaths—a rate of .76 per
1,000.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
During the year under review, no action was taken under
these regulations.
Occupations.—A consideration of this question does not
reveal any influence of occupation in the incidence of tuberculosis
in the Borough.
Housing.—In some 14 cases during the year special recommendations
were made to the Public Health Committee of the
Council and to the London County Council for re-housing of families
that included a person with tuberculosis. In many cases suitable
offers of accommodation had to be refused because of distance
from work or an increase in rent. It would seem that from