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During the year 231 pulmonary cases (113 male and 118 female)
were added to the register as compared with 212 for the year 1937.
Of this number 102 had previously been notified in other districts
as suffering from this disease before they removed here. In view
of the short period which elapsed between their coming to reside
here and the date the disease was notified, it is probable that many
other patients had been infected before transfer. Assuming,
however, that all those 129 cases who had not been previously
notified contracted the infection here, the rate per 1,000 population
of new cases would be 0.70, compared with the national rate in
1937 of 0.9.
Of those cases locally contracted, one in five gave a family
history of infection. Amongst the males there was no especial
preponderance amongst workers at any particular employment ;
one-half of the females were engaged on housework, most of them
being married.
Of 98 cases who transferred here while suffering from
tuberculosis, 50 were known of within six months of transfer and
a further 25 within the twelvemonth. 13 were learned of in their
second year of residence, five in the third, but five had been here
for three or more years.
55 cases (29 male and 26 female) of non-pulmonary disease
were learned of during the year, being a rate of 0.30 per 1,000