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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Examination of Contacts.
Table LXXVII. is a similar one to Table LXXVI. but deals
with contacts only.
The number of Contacts examined for the first time was 421,
compared with 541 in 1913.
The number found to be suffering from Tuberculosis was lower,
viz.:—28 or 6.65 per cent., compared with 54 or 9.98 per cent. in
1913.
280 out of 421 were under the age of 15. Of these only five or
1.78 per cent. were tuberculous, compared with 28 or 7.74 per cent.
in 1913.
Of the 141 aged 15 and upwards, 23 or 16.31 per cent. were
tuberculous, compared with 26 or 14.6 per cent. in 1913.
As last year, the sexes were equally represented up to the age
of 15, while above that age there were many more females than
males.
As will be seen from Table LXXIII., 280 of the 593 nontuberculous
cases of 1913 attended during 1914 and are still free
from the disease. These are contacts which are kept under observation
so that any symptoms of the disease may be detected at the
earliest moment.
A further four of the non-tuberculous cases of 1913 have developed
tuberculosis during 1914 and are now under treatment for
it. They are included with the tuberculous cases in Tables LXXIII.
and LXXIX.