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Report of the Tuberculosis Officer for 1929.
The primary notifications of tuberculosis for 1929 numbered
375, of which 296 were of pulmonary tuberculosis and 79 of
other forms of tuberculosis. During the year 153 persons died
from pulmonary tuberculosis and 31 from non-pulmonary tuberculosis.
The death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis was 0.73
per 1,000 inhabitants, compared with 0.77 per 1,000 inhabitants
in 1928.
There are at present living in the Borough 1,171 notified
cases of tuberculosis, classified as follows:—Pulmonary males,
458; pulmonary females, 449; non-pulmonary males, 121; nonpulmonary
females, 143. The estimated population is 207,900;
there is, therefore, one case of tuberculosis for every 177 inhabitants.
All these patients have been visited in their homes
by the Health Visitors, and the great majority of them by the
Tuberculosis Officer also, in order that advice may be given
regarding the care of the patients in their homes. Of the tuberculous
persons living in the Borough during 1929, 939 have at
some time attended the Dispensarv, i.e., three-quarters of the
total number.
Table A shows the condition on December 31st, 1929, of
the 2,500 patients diagnosed as suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis,
who have attended the Dispensary since its foundation
in June, 1916. Of these, 977 (39%) have died in the Borough,
and 345 (13.8%) are well and at work. 209 (8.3%) have been
discharged as cured, or with diagnosis unconfirmed.