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The number of deaths shows a slight decrease compared
with 1931, there being 66 deaths from pulmonary and 13 deaths
from non-pulmonary tuberculosis, compared with 74 and 7
respectively. The total tuberculosis death-rate of 0.64 per 1,000
of population, therefore, shows a further decrease, being the lowest
death-rate from the disease in the last eleven years.
Seven persons were certified as dying from pulmonary tuberculosis,
although they had not been notified as suffering from the
disease ; four were attended by local doctors and three died outside
the district. Two deaths from non-pulmonary tuberculosis had
not been previously notified and both of these had been attended
by local doctors. In every instance where a local medical practitioner
failed to notify a case previous to death a communication
was sent drawing his attention to the requirements of the Public
Health (Notification of Infectious Disease) Regulations, 1918.
The number of cases remaining on the tuberculosis register
at the end of the year was 475 (366 pulmonary, 109 non-pulmonary).
This figure showing a slight increase on the total at the end of 1931
which was 457 (357 pulmonary, 100 non-pulmonary). The register
is revised periodically, information being obtained from the Tuberculosis
Officer regarding cases in attendance at the County Council
Dispensary and the Sanitary Inspectors visiting the addresses
of the patients, where necessary, to verify their continued residence.
The total of 475 cases provides the interesting fact that one out of
every 258 persons resident in Ealing is suffering from tuberculosis.