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Comments on Table I.
Items A and B.—The total new cases and contacts examined during
the year show a decrease of 147 as compared with 1936. The 633 new
cases of Item A is a composite figure made up as follows: 385 cases
(excluding contacts) attending for the first time during 1937, and 248
cases examined during preceding years (including contacts examined
during preceding years) and discharged as non-tuberculous, who presented
themselves for re-examination during 1937. These are grouped together
under Item A according to instructions in the Ministry of Health's
Memorandum 37/T. Revised. Of these 633 new cases, 151 were found
to be suffering from Tuberculosis.
280 new contacts (Item B) were examined during the year, and of
these five were found to be suffering from Tuberculosis.
Item 5.—The number of attendances during the year shows a decrease
of 1,443.
Item 8.—Tuberculosis Officers, visits during the year decreased by 37.
Item 9.—In addition to the 7,128 visits paid by the Health Visitors
for dispensary purposes, 232 "non-dispensary" visits were paid under
the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
Item 10.—Included in the 616 specimens of sputum, etc., examined
at the Dispensary were four specimens of urine examined for the presence
of tubercle bacilli.
Comments on Tables II and III.
These returns continue to remain optional. During the year 45
cases were removed from the Dispensary Register as ' 'Recovered'' (there
were 69 in 1936), and are analysed in Item C on Table I. These have
been added to those similarly removed in former years in the appropriate
columns of Tables II and III.