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"The Minister is advised that the removal of a case
from the register as "cured" is justified in pulmonary
cases in which, for a period of five years, there have been
no symptoms of tuberculosis and no signs of tuberculous
disease, except such as are compatible with a completely
healed lesion, and sputum, if present, has been free from
tubercle bacilli; and in non-pulmonary cases in which
three years have elapsed without any signs or symptoms
of active disease."
Table No. 45 has been constructed to show the number of
oases of tuberculosis, classified by sex and type, notified each
year since 1911, and the numbers remaining on the register
at the end of 1924:—