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53
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE TUBERCULOSIS
AND CHEST CLINIC, 1933.
Dr. Philip Ellman reports as follows on the principal features
of the work for 1933.
Statistical.
Notifications.
The number of primary notifications of tuberculosis during
the year 1933 was 249 as compared with 214 for the year 1932.
Of these notifications in 43.07 per cent. tubercle bacilli were
found in the sputum.
This is a higher number of sputum positive cases than in 1932.
It is of course important to get as small a number of infectious
cases among the primary notifications as possible.
The total number of notified cases on the Register of the
Clinic on 31st December, 1933 was 947 (Pulmonary and Non-Pulmonary).
Of these 326 were definitely infectious cases, i.e., cases
in which tubercle bacilli have been found in the sputum at some
period of the illness.