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TUBERCULOSIS.
The Registrar's Returns are systematically searched for deaths of notified persons from causes
other than tuberculosis. Such search is fairly successful with regard to patients certified as
tuberculous during the year under review, but it naturally becomes increasingly difficult with regard
to cases certified in earlier years, and, of course, cannot be applied to persons who remove from the
Borough. Last year the search resulted in the discovery of 24 deaths of persons who had been
certified to be definitely tuberculous and 2 of those who were suspected to be so, the cases traced
going as far back as 1910 (one case). In 1912 25 such deaths were discovered.
In the statement on page 63 the principal particulars of these deaths are set out. Patients
certified as having pulmonary tuberculosis are grouped under two headings, (a) those in whom
the original diagnosis was not varied during their lifetime, and (b) those in whom the original
diagnosis, for one reason or another, was so reviewed. In the former group it will be found
that there was one death in which pulmonary tuberculosis was mentioned as the secondary
cause of death. That case was not "notified " until after death. Among the deaths of patients
" notified " for other forms of tuberculosis there was one from nasal diphtheria plus acute miliary
tuberculosis, the latter disease being again " notified " after death.