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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Deaths.—The total number of deaths certified as due to
diseases of a Tuberculous nature was 294—of whom 155 were
males, and 139 females. Of the 294 deaths, 244 were due to
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 24 to Tuberculous Meningitis, four to
Abdominal Tuberculosis, and 22 to other forms of Tuberculosis.
Table XVI. gives details regarding the type of the disease,
sex, and age grouping of these 294 deaths.
In addition to these deaths, which were duly certified in the
returns as due to Tuberculosis, 17 persons previously notified
as suffering from Tuberculosis died during the year. These
deaths, however, do not figure in Table XVI. for the following
reasons:—
(a.) 15 were certified as dying of diseases other than Tuberculosis.
(b.) Two had previously moved outside the Borough and
died there, the deaths being credited to the areas in which death
occurred.
The following Table gives figures for the past ten years,
showing both the number of deaths, and the death-rate per 1,000
from Tuberculosis in the Borough. It will be seen that the Tuberculosis
death-rate for 1924 is the lowest recorded.