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Deaths
Tuberculosis of the respiratory system, 2; other forms, 0.
For details of new cases notified and deaths in 1959, see Appendix, Table IX, and for
the occupation of new cases see Appendix, Table X.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925
Public Health Act, 1936, Section 172
Action under these powers was not necessary during the year.
After being able to report a low record for deaths from tuberculosis in 1958, it is satisfactory
to show a new low record—only two deaths from this disease having occurred in
1959. This, however, combined with a slight increase in the notification rate, suggests, not
that there was less tubercular infection, but that cases were found early enough for treatment
to be effective.

In one house occupied by an Indian patient, there had been two previous members of
the family affected—one with pulmonary and one with non-pulmonary tuberculosis, but
no statutory overcrowding existed at the premises.
The analysis of the housing conditions of new cases shows that of the notified patients
living in Southall, exclusive of St. Bernard's Hospital notifications, housing conditions were
reasonably good in all except two cases. In these cases there was statutory overcrowding.
No abatement of the overcrowding had been obtained by the end of 1959.
In five families, there were second cases of tuberculosis, and in one of these, three
patients were suffering from the disease at the same time.
One case remaining in overcrowded conditions since 1956 left the district during 1959.
Of the four cases of overcrowding during 1958, two patients have moved to another address
in Southall, the remaining two were still not ameliorated at the end of the year.
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