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The following Table, No. 67, shows the site of the disease in patients notified
each year since 1926.

The Regulations of 1921 require the Medical Officer of Health to revise quarterly
the register of notifications, and, as soon as he is aware that a notified case has
removed permanently to another area, to notify the Medical Officer of Health of that
area of the case. In accordance with these Regulations 61 notifications were sent
to other medical officers, and 32 were received.
The Regulations of 1924 require the Medical Officer of Health to furnish,
quarterly, a return to the County Medical Officer of the number of cases of tuberculosis
in the district. The usual steps were taken during the year to ensure that
the notification register correctly represents the number of cases of tuberculosis
in the district. Deletions from the register have been made in the case of patients
who have died; who have left the district; who have been lost sight of ; who
have been cured, and those in whom the diagnosis has not been confirmed. The
following Table, No. 68, shows the number on the Register at the beginning of the
year, the changes which have taken place during the year, and the number remaining
on the register at the end of the year. It will be seen that the total number on
the register on the 31st December was 1,217, and of this number 1,079, or 88.6 per
cent., were on the Dispensary Register, i.e., had been dealt with in connection
with the Public Health scheme for the treatment of tuberculosis. In 1929 the
corresponding percentage was 83.7.