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The number of new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis was 178
compared with 139 in the previous year. The number of cases of
non-pulmonary tuberculosis was 37 compared with 22 in 1936.
The total deaths from tuberculosis were 88 (pulmonary 76, nonpulmonary
12), this number being exactly the same as in the
preceding year.
Sixteen persons were certified as dying from tuberculosis
and four from non-pulmonary tuberculosis, although they had
not been notified as suffering from the disease. Where the deaths
were certified by local medical practitioners their attention was
drawn to their failure to give the proper notification.
The number of cases on the tuberculosis register at the end
of the year was 688 (551 pulmonary and 137 non-pulmonary)
compared with 587 at the end of the previous year. The register
is revised periodically and visits are paid by the Sanitary Inspectors
to the homes of patients who are not under the supervision of the
Tuberculosis Officer, in order to obtain information as to their
progress.
The following information has been provided by Dr. J. T.
Nicol Roe, the Medical Officer in charge of the Tuberculosis
Dispensary, West Ealing, maintained by the Middlesex County
Council, with regard to residents from the Borough dealt with
during the year:—

Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Seven cases were notified during
the year, one being an infant who had been born in a London
hospital, the other six having been born at home. The final report
on each case was that the condition had cleared up and that
the child's vision was unimpaired.