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Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the vast majority of sufferers is a
relatively chronic disease and it rarely kills so rapidly that its entire
course is only of a month's duration. It must be inferred either,
that the victims omitted to seek advice until absolutely compelled
to do so, or the medical men in attendance did not diagnose the
condition until it was far advanced. Early notification is of great
importance from both the preventive and the curative aspects of
this malady.
In 32.2% notification preceded death by less than six months.
For Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis the proportion of non-notified
fatal cases to the total deaths from this form of the disease was
57.9%. In other words, out of a total of 19 deaths, 11 were not
notified during life; only 3 of these 11 cases died at home.
Of the total deaths from Tuberculosis of all forms, 29 or 16.6%,
were not notified prior to death, compared with 16.5% in 1930.

Table LX. shows the incidence rate and death rate of all forms
of Tuberculosis for the various wards of the Borough, based on
ward populations calculated from a total population of 233,115.
The death rate for the whole Borough was 0.746.