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Tuberculosis Register - 1953° Gases removed from the Register
shown under (e)(2). As intimated in the 1952 Report it was felt
that full information on old cases had not previously been supplied
to this Department and in order to check if this was so a full survey
of all the names on the Tuberculosis Register was carried out, and
enquiries were made with regard to those found not to have been
recently reviewed in any way. As a result, 329 names of patients who
had either recovered, died or left the district, details of which we
had not been given previously, were removed from the active list.
The occupations of cases of tuberculosis notified during the
year have been classified under 11 headings and are ^iown in Table
XII below with the comparable figures for the years 1951 and 1952.

A rise is shown in incidence of tuberculosis as evidenced by the
increased notification figure, 126 as compared with 107 in 19525 but
as this is coupled with a further fall in the number of deaths from
the disease, it seems reasonable to suggest that this rise may be the
result of better notification due to earlier discovery of cases in a
stage of the illness where treatment can effect a cure.
The fall in deaths from tuberculosis is very gratifying - from
in 1950 to 25 in 1951 to 15 in 1952 then to 9 in 1953.
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