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Six cases were not notified during life. Of these, two were
certified by the Coroner, after a post-mortem examination ; three
cases died in a mental hospital, and one in a private nursing
home.
In 1949 the death-rate from all forms of Tuberculosis was
0.38 per 1,000 population.
The rate for Respiratory Tuberculosis was 0.36 and the rate
for Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis 0.02. Similar figures for 1948
were 0.42 and 0.03.
Respiratory Tuberculosis.
In 1949 the total number of deaths decreased by 14.5 per cent.
compared with 1948, there being a decrease in both sexes. There
were two deaths in children up to school leaving age (15 years).
There were approximately two male deaths for each female death.
In men the deaths are fairly evenly distributed through the age
groups from 25 years upwards, whereas in women they are mostly
at an earlier age, being mainly in the age groups 20-45 years.
New cases show a drop in males of 15.9 per cent. and of 21.3
per cent. in females, compared with 1948; that is a total decrease
compared with 1948 of 16.4 per cent., and a fall of 2.3 per cent.
compared with 1938. In contrast the total deaths in 1949 were
25.3 per cent. less than in 1938. The total number of new cases
in 1949 was males 151, females 108; that is, approximately three
new cases in men for every two new cases in women.
The fall in the number of new cases found in 1949 may be
partly accounted for by the fact that the Mass Radiography Unit
did not visit Croydon during 1949; also that the visit of the Unit
to Croydon in 1948 probably brought to light a number of cases
that would not otherwise have been discovered until 1949,