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Comments on Foregoing Table.
The organs most often attacked in descending order of
incidence are : In the males—the Lungs (22.2 per cent.), the
Bowels and Rectum (21.8 per cent.), and the Stomach (14.5 per
cent.); in females—the Bowels and Rectum (19.1 per cent.), the
Breast (18.7 per cent.), the Stomach (16.0 per cent.), and the
Uterus (11.8 per cent.)
THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS.
1 am indebted to Dr. J. C. McMillan for the following 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 were different in 1948, a comparison
with 1921 shows that in 1921, 96 per 100,001) of the
population in Croydon died from all forms of tuberculosis; in
1948 the corresponding figure was 45.
The total number of new cases of Tuberculosis coming to the
knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1948
by notification or otherwise was 350, as compared with 354 in
1947, 348 in 1946, 374-in 1945, and 315 in 1944.
312 of these were cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 181 in
males and 131 in females. There were 8 fewer cases of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis in males and 19 more in females than in 1947.
There were 18 cases of Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis among
children under 15 years as compared with 20 in 1947. The
number.of cases in adults was 20, compared with 33 in 1947.
Of the cases notified in 1948, 18 males and 6 females died
from the Pulmonary form of the disease during the year, equal
to 9.4 per cent, of those notified.
The incidence rale of Tuberculosis of all forms was 1.42 per
1,000 of the population; for Pulmonary Tuberculosis 1.26, and
for Non-Pulmonary 0.16 per 1,000 population. The notification
rate was 1.15 per 1,000. In 1947 the corresponding figures were
1.46, 1.24, 0.32 and 1.14 pr 1,000.
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