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heaviest incidence amongst the females was recorded at the ages 15 to
24, 9 in the group 15 to 19, and 15 in the group 20 to 24. A family
history of infection was obtained in one-third of these. Five of these
girls worked in a factory, nine were engaged in offices as clerks or typists,
four were married women and two were shop assistants.
The 42 notifications (16 male and 26 female) of non-pulmonary disease
is a decline on the figure of 53 for last year. Of these patients 22 came here
suffering from the disease. This year only six, 2 male and 4 female, had
previously been notified before removal here, so that the number of
new notifications is much the same as last year. Of the cases which contracted
the infection locally, one-third suffered from infections of glands,
mostly cervical; in most of the other cases the affected site was bone or
joint, meninges, genito-urinary tract or abdomen in equal numbers. Of
the transferred cases one-half suffered from lesions of bones or joints.
16, or 14 per cent, of the deaths of patients suffering from pulmonary
disease and 4, or 44 per cent, of the deaths of patients suffering from nonpulmonary
disease occurred among patients who had not been notified
in this area as suffering from tuberculosis.

Deaths.
Ill persons (72 male and 39 female) died from pulmonary tuberculosis
during the year and 9 (3 male and 6 female) from non-pulmonary
tuberculosis. Tuberculous disease therefore accounted for 6.7 per cent.