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40
Insured Patients.
105 patients were recommended for admission to sanatorium or
hospital, 55 were admitted for treatment, and 16 were admitted to
hospital for observation, in 7 of whom a diagnosis of tuberculosis was
eventually made.
Uninsured Patients.
36 recommended for institutional treatment and 29 were
admitted.

Deaths.—130 persons (81 males and 49 females) who had suffered at
some time from pulmonary tuberculosis died during the year, but 10 of
these died from other complaints. Of the new cases of pulmonary disease
recorded in 1921, death occurred in 44 males (14 casuals and 30 general
population) and in 27 females. The remainder were of persons notified
in previous years, 26 (16 males 10 females) being 1920 cases ; 12 (7 males
5 females), 1919 cases; the rest (12 males 7 females) being spread over
each of the years 1909-1918, while 2 were of male persons notified so far
back as 1905.
Of the non-pulmonary 16 died (1 from Bright's disease) 12 were 1921
cases, 1 of 1920, 1 of 1918, and 2 of 1913. The net number registered as
dying from tuberculosis were—Pulmonary: Males, 77; Females, 43—
Non-pulmonary : Males, 7; Females, 8.

For London the rates were 105 and 20 respectively. Total 125.