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The responsibility for maintaining a correct register of all cases of tuberculosis
in the Borough is placed on the Medical Officer of Health by the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930. To do so it is necessary to delete from the
register the names of all those who have died, or have been lost sight of, or have
removed to other areas; those patients regarded as cured, and those in whom the
diagnosis was not confirmed. It is necessary also to add the names of new cases,
lost cases who have been traced, cured cases who have relapsed and those coming
to live in the district from elsewhere. The number of inward transfers was 46 and
the number of transfers from the borough was 69. The following Table No. 50
shows the changes which have taken place in the register during the year.

At the end of the year the total number on the register was 903 and of this
number 96 per cent, were on the dispensary register. In 1937 the corresponding
percentage was 94 and in 1936 it was 90.4. Only those patients receiving public
medical treatment and supervision are entered on the dispensary register. The
following Table No. 51 shows, allocated to district of usual residence, the new cases
notified during the year and corresponding case rates.

Table No. 52 which follows, summarises the number of cases coming to the
knowledge of the department in 1938 and includes notifications received from