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Deaths:
There were 6 deaths among chest clinic patients, directly attributable to
tuberculosis — the lowest figure ever recorded. All were respiratory cases and there
was only one female death. This occurred in an aged lady of 85 years, neglected and
living alone whose tuberculosis was not discovered until it proved to be her fatal
illness. Similar circumstances attended the death of a lone aged man who collapsed
and died undiagnosed until at post-mortem examination. One male death occurred
in a patient whose infection had become resistant to standard treatment preparations.
As in previous years these deaths reflect problems arising from the onset of drug
resistance and neglect in old age as a contributing cause of death.

* Includes observation cases