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TUBERCULOSIS
The discharge of many cases under treatment in sanatoria
and hospitals on the outbreak of war liberated a number of '
foci of infection which will provide the opportunity for an
increase in the incidence always likely to follow periods of
war-strain, without those accompanying trials of feeding and
housing which have been accentuated in the present conflict.
Notifications received during the year
ended 51st December, 1959
Pulmonary 446(505)
Non-Pulmonary 74(81)
Deaths certified 241(209)
6.