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to risk in tuberculous households from an adult with positive
sputum. It was found that the death rate was greatly in excess of
the rate from the same cause in the County serving as a "control"
the rate being:—
Nine times greater in the age group 0-1.
Fourteen times greater in the age group 1-2.
Nineteen times greater in the age group 2-5.
The great excess was mainly due to deaths from tuberculous
meningitis, which accounted for two-thirds of the mortality.
The rate was greater amongst the children of tuberculous
mothers with positive sputum than amongst children whose fathers
had positive sputum.
It was also found that those children in the group ages 0-5 who
were in contact at home with an adult person suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis (whether sputum positive or negative) did not
have a higher mortality from all causes, when compared with the
expectation of life of children in England and Wales.
NOTIFICATION OF TUBERCULOSIS.
Two hundred and eighty-two cases of Pulmonary tuberculosis
and 48 of Non-Pulmonary tuberculosis were notified on Form A
(primary notifications) ; of these 158 males and 124 females were
pulmonary cases, 24 males and 24 females non pulmonary. In
addition 59 pulmonary cases and 23 non-pulmonary came to our
notice as new cases otherwise than by notification.