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Of those cases locally contracted, one in four of the males gave
a family history of infection and one in 3 of the females. There
was, amongst the males, no especial preponderance amongst
workers at any particular employment, about one-quarter of them
being clerks. Most of the females were engaged in house-work, the
majority being married. Of the 93 cases who transferred here while
suffering from tuberculosis, 74 were known of within 12 months.
19, however, were not learned of for a longer period, 15 of these
being women, these cases exceptionally being lost for periods up to
5 years, though most of them were known of within two years of
transfer.
34 cases (19 male and 15 female) of non-pulmonary disease
were learned of during the year, being a rate of 0.23 per 1,000
population compared with the figure of 0.36 for England and Wales
for the year 1935. Of those about whom particulars are known, 14
contracted the disease locally, while 12 transferred here suffering
from it. One-third of the lesions were of bones or joints, equally
divided amongst those who contracted the disease locally and those
who transferred here with it. The only other frequent sites were
the meninges and the abdomen, four patients dying of meningitis
having apparently contracted the disease while living here, but all
the cases of abdominal infection having transferred here while
already suffering from the complaint. A family history of tuberculosis
was rarely obtained, and in practically all the cases the milk
supply was pasteurised.

Per 100,000 population the numbers of pulmonary cases on the
register at the end of the year were 155 male and 131 female, the
comparable figures for the country as a whole at the end of 1935
being 292 and 252. The corresponding local figures for nonpulmonary
tuberculosis were 3.5 and 3.5 and for England and Wales
12 and 11.5.