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tion, but the 16 cases assumed to have contracted the disease
locally is a rate of only 0.11.
Of the 15 cases who are assumed to have contracted the
infection while living here, five suffered from meningitis, three
being males of eight, 21 and 34, and two females of four months
and 34. In respect of these a family history of tubercular infection
was obtained only in the case of the infant. The affected site in
the case of four was bone or joint. Three of these cases were males
of four, five and 21 years of age, one was a female of 50, this being
the only case where there was a family history of infection. The
abdomen was the site affected in two, a male of five and a female
16 ; the neck glands of two males of five and 10, and the urogenital
tract of two, a male of 56 and a female of five.
In practically all these cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis,
the patient had used a pasteurized milk since living here. The
period of residence here in the case of six was between 10 and 15
months.

Under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930, it
is laid as a duty on the Medical Officer of Health to keep a register
of particulars of all notifications received by him under these
regulations. In addition particulars are to be entered of persons
notified as suffering from tuberculosis who have removed into
the district and of whose removal he is notified by the Medical
Officer of Health of the district from which the patients came, and
of persons who normally resided in the district and whose death
from tuberculosis has come to his knowledge but who have not
been notified to him as suffering from tuberculosis. The register
shall be revised not less frequently than once in every quarter by
the removal of entries which have been withdrawn, of entries
relating to persons who have recovered, of entries relating to
persons who have died, have ceased to reside permanently in
the district or who, after adequate research, cannot be found
resident in the district.