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Eight cases were not notified during life. Of these, five were
certified by the Coroner, after a post-mortem examination; two
cases died in a mental hospital, and one in a general hospital.
In 1950 the death-rate from all forms of Tuberculosis was
0.27 per 1,000 population.
The rate for Respiratory Tuberculosis was 0.24 and the rate
for Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis 0.03. Similar figures for 1949
were 0.36 and 0.02.
Respiratory Tuberculosis.
In 1950 the total number of deaths decreased by 32.6 per
cent., compared with 1949, there being a decrease in both sexes
of over 30 per cent. There was one death in children up lo schoolleaving
age (15 years). 70 per cent. of the total deaths occurred
in the age groups 45 and over.
New cases show an increase in males of 24.3 per cent, and of
28.7 per cent. in females, compared with 1949; that is a total
increase, compared with 1949, of 26.1 per cent., and a rise of 6
per cent. compared with 1948. In contrast, the total deaths in
1950 were 42.3 per cent, less than in 1948. The total numbers
of the new cases in 1950 were : Males 194, females 139; that is
approximately three new cases in men for every two new cases in
women.
The increase in the number of new cases found in 1950 may
be partly accounted for by the fact that the Mass Radiography
Unit visited Croydon during 1950, and the fuller use the General
Medical Practitioners have been making of the facilities at the
Chest Clinic, in conjunction with a more thorough follow-up of