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The total number of new cases of Tuberculosis coming to the
knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1946
by notification or otherwise was 348, as compared with 374 in
1945, 315 in 1944, 383 in 1943, and 323 in 1942.
309 of these were case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 187 in
males and 122 in females. There were 8 more cases of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis in males and 13 fewer in females than in
1945.
There were 19 cases of Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis among
children under 15 years as compared with 27 in 1945. The
number of cases in adults was 20, compared with 33 in 1945.
Of the cases notified in 1946, 21 males and 4 females died
from the Pulmonary, form of the disease during the year, equal
to 10.5 per cent, of those notified.
The incidence rate of Tuberculosis of all forms was 1.49 per
1,000 of the population; for Pulmonary Tuberculosis 1.32, and
for Non-pulmonary 0.17 per 1,000 population. The notification
rate was 1.12 per 1,000. In 1945 the corresponding figures were
1.86, 1.56, 0.30, and 1.53 per 1,000.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
Summary of notifications during the period from 1st January,
1946, to 31st December, 1946 :—