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Five cases were not notified during life. Of these, three were
certified by the Coroner, after a post-mortem examination; one
case died in a nursing home, and one in a fever hospital.
In 1951 the death-rate from all forms of Tuberulosis was
0.25 per 1,000 population.
The rate for Respiratory Tuberculosis was 0.20 and the rate
for Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis 0.05. Similar figures for 1950
were 0.24 and 0.03.
Respiratory Tuberculosis.
In 1951 the total number of deaths decreased by 13.3 per
cent., compared with 1950, there being a decrease in males of
15 per cent. and in females of 10 per cent. 65.4 per cent. of the
total deaths occurred in the age groups 45 and over, and 32.7 per
cent. in the age groups 20—44 years. It is interesting to note
that, for the first time since 1948, there was no death amongst
children (1—15 years).
New cases show a decrease in males of 11.8 per cent, and of
27.3 per cent. in females, compared with 1950, that is a total
decrease, compared with 1950, of 18.1 per cent. The total numbers
of the new cases in 1950 were : Males 171, females 101; that is,
approximately three new cases in men for every two new cases
in women.
As the Mass Radiography Unit continues to visit Croydon
at regular intervals and has a good response from the public, and
all the facilities of the Chest Clinic have been used as; much as in
1950 by the General Medical Practitioners, it can be fairly
assumed that the decrease in new cases found to be suffering
from Respiratory Tuberculosis is a real one.