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relapse. Six per cent, of all cases on the clinic registers in the County were found during
the year to excrete tubercle bacilli, i.e., were likely to be infective to others.
It is noteworthy also that 33.3 per cent. of males on the clinic registers of lung cases
were over 45 years of age. For females in this age group the proportion was 17.2 per cent.
During the year, 42 per cent. of the 2,476 newly-notified male pulmonary cases
were in the age groups over 45 years, whereas only 16 per cent. of the 1,755 newlynotified
female lung cases were in this age group. Almost half of the newly-notified
female cases occurred in the age group 20-35 years.
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