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Nine cases were not notified during life. Of these, six were
certified by the Coroner, after a post-mortem examination; three
cases died in hospital.
In 1952 the death-rate from all forms of Tuberculosis was
0.216 per 1,000 population.
The rate for Respiratory Tuberculosis was 0.208 and the rate
for Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis 0.008. Similar figures for 1951
were 0.20 and 0.05.
Respiratory Tuberculosis.
In 1952 the total number of deaths increased by approximately
2.0 per cent., compared with 1951, there being an increase in
males of 11.7 per cent. and a decrease in females of 17.6 per cent.
80 per cent. of the total deaths occurred in the age groups 45 and
over, and the remainder in the age groups 20—44 years. There
was again no death amongst children (1—15 years).
New cases show an increase in males of 11.1 per cent. and of
14.9 per cent. in females, compared with 1951, that is a total
increase, compared with 1951, of 12.5 percent. The total numbers
of the new cases in 1952 were: Males 190, females 116; that is,
approximately three new cases in men for every two new cases
in women.
The maintenance of the death rate at the low figure of
21.5 per 100,000 population continues to reflect the general modern
advances in treatment, associated with necessary local measures to
make available more beds and the rehousing of infectious cases
by the Croydon Corporation.