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In this table the large number of transfers out of the district
is due to the fact that this year is the first in which it has
been tound possible to check all cases on the register. These
numbers represent losses, not in this year but over a number
of years.
During the year there were notified 93 cases of pulmonary
tuberculosis and 37 of non-pulmonary tuberculosis. In addition,
there were brought to notice other than by primary notification
37 pulmonary cases and 5 non-pulmonary cases. These latter
were mostly cases who had transferred to the" district while suffering
from the disease.
Of the 156 pulmonary cases about whom information was
received in the course of the year (including those cases first learned
of from death certificates), 50 per cent. contracted the disease here,
and 50 per cent. transferred while suffering from it. Of the cases
who contracted the disease whilst living here, 90 per cent were
residents of the estate houses, practically all the remainder living
in the older property. Of the transferred cases, the percentage
of persons living in the estate houses was 80, in the older 13 and in
the newer houses 7. In classifying the patient as a transfer or as
an original case. a period of residence of 6 months is taken as the
dividing line. Excluding those cases who were notified within
6 months of living in the district, there was only one pulmonary case
notified of a person who had lived here under 1 vear; 5 had lived
here over 1 but under 2 years, 16 were notified in the 3rd year of
residence, 8 in their 4th and the same number in the 5th, 3 in the
6th, 10 in the 7th, 7 in the 8th and 3 in the 9th year. 3 other persons
had lived here for longer periods.