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Comments on Foregoing Table.
The organs most often attacked in descending order of
incidence are: In the males— the Stomach (23.8 per cent.), the
Bowels and Rectum (22.0 per cent.), the Lungs 20.1 per cent.),
and the Prostate (6.5 per cent.); in females— the Bowels and
Rectum (24.3 per cent.), the Breast (19.4 per cent.), the Stomach
(15.5 per cent.), and the Uterus (10.7 per cent.)
THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS.
I am indebted to Dr. J. C. McMillan, the Assistant Medical
Officer of Health for Tuberculosis, for the statistical part of this
section of the report.
While prevention has so far yielded greater dividends than
treatment, treatment has not stood still. A survey of the incidence
and mortality figures in recent years shows greater
diminution in mortality than in incidence of the pulmonary form
of the disease.
Although social conditions are different and broadly unfavourable
in 1944, a comparison with 1914 is the best we can do. The
outstanding facts are these: In 1914, 105 per 100,000 of the population
in Croydon died from all forms of tuberculosis; in 1944 the
corresponding figure was 57.
Owing to fluctuations in population the following statistics
cannot be correlated to those of previous war years.
Notification of Tuberculosis.
Two hundred and twenty-two cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
and 35 cases of Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis were
notified on Form A (primary notifications); of these 126 males
and 96 females were pulmonary cases; 19 males and 16 females
non-pulmonary. In addition, 49 pulmonary cases and 9 nonpulmonary
came to our notice as new cases otherwise than bv
notification.
The total number of new cases of Tuberculosis coming to
the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year
1944 by notification or otherwise was 315, as compared with 383
in 1943, 323 in 1942, and 286 in 1941.