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Analysis of New Cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis occurring
in 1921, who did NOT attend at the tuberculosis dispensary.
Total number of Pulmonary cases who did not attend
the Dispensary 51*
Number known to be alive December, 1927 4= 8%
Number known to be dead December, 1927 26 = 52%
Number removed from the Borough (present condition
unknown) 21 = 40%
Analysis of New Cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis occurring in
1922, who did NOT attend at the Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Total number of Pulmonary cases who did not attend
the Dispensary 50†
Number known to be alive in December, 1927 8=16%
Number known to be dead in December, 1927 17=34%
Number removed from the Borough (present condition
unknown) 25=50%
These figures show, as far as it is possible to trace these people,
that at the end of six years 63% are dead.
These tables are designed to show what is the progress (a) of those
patients who attended the Tuberculosis Dispensary, and (b) those who
did not, and I propose to continue them over a series of years so that we
may be able to tell from the tables at any one year how many survive
out of the two categories, and so arrive at a better estimate of prognosis
and mortality.
Notification and Deaths.
During the year 1927, 90 new cases of Tuberculosis were notified,
79 being cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and 11 other forms of the
disease.
The following statistical table, prescribed by the Ministry of
Health, gives an analysis of the newly notified cases and deaths during
1927:-
* 50% of the whole of the pulmonary cases notified.
† 60% of the whole of the pulmonary cases notified.