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The number of notifications received during the year was 12.
Of the total notifications, which include new cases and inward transfers from other
districts, 54 were received from the Uxbridge Chest Clinic; 5 from General Hospitals;
8 from St. Bernard's Hospital and 4 from General Practitioners. The number of new notifications
fell from 89 in 1961 to 71 in 1962. Of the 71, 31 were inward transfers, i.e. they
were not resident in Southall at the time of development of the disease and, therefore, the
actual figure of new notifications of Southall residents was 40, three of which were subsequently
diagnosed as non-tuberculous; while in 1961 the number of inward transfers was
22, making the figure for new notifications of Southall residents 67, less one subsequently
cancelled.
Deaths
Tuberculosis of the respiratory system, 4; other forms, nil.
For details of new cases notified and deaths in 1962, see Appendix, Table VIII, and
for the occupation of new cases, see Appendix, Table IX.
The notification figures showed a drop in 1962, pulmonary cases being 15 less and nonpulmonary
3 less than in the previous year. Graph B shows the progress of notifications
and deaths since 1930. There were four deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis as compared
with one in 1961.

The analysis of the housing conditions of newly notified cases shows that 30 lived in
houses, 3 in flats, 23 in lodgings; information was not available with regard to the other 15
cases for various reasons: one was an inward transfer who was really a recovered case, two
cases subsequently not confirmed, ten cases notified from St. Bernard's Hospital, one
returned to Ireland and another removed to Buckinghamshire. Of the 56 cases above, ten
were inward transfers, i.e. had not contracted the disease in Southall.
There were 8 cases living in overcrowded homes, 7 Indians and one West Indian.
Two of the Indians removed during the year, thus abating overcrowding.
In four instances there were multiple cases, one in an English home, two in Indian homes
and one in an Irish home. Statutory overcrowding was confirmed in one of these houses.
The number of patients was two in three cases, and three in one case.
Of three cases of overcrowding with tuberculosis in 1961, abatement had occurred in
one instance, overcrowding was still existing in the other two. In one instance from 1960 of
dilapidated housing with tuberculosis, no rehousing had taken place by the end of the year.
Management of Tuberculosis
For diagnostic purposes, Southall patients are mostly referred either by general practitioners
or from hospital doctors to the Uxbridge Chest Clinic, and if tuberculosis is found,
treatment and following-up is instituted from that Clinic. The Tuberculosis Visitor calls
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