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Tuberculosis.
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The new cases admitted to the tuberculosis register during the year
numbered 106, classified as follows :—
Males. Females.
Pulmonary 48 Pulmonary 50
Non-pulmonary 3 Non-pulmonary 5
Of the total additions, 61 were primary notifications, 42 were
transferred from other districts, and three came to notice in other ways.
For the same period, 139 names were "removed from the register
for the following reasons :—
Recovered 25
Death 26
Otherwise "(including removals) 88
After allowing for the additions and deductions, the state of the
register at the 31st December, 1951, was as shown in the following
table :—

The total of 812 is 33 less than at the corresponding date twelve
months earlier.
The number of patients from Carshalton who received institutional
treatment under the arrangements of the South-West Metropolitan
Hospital Board during the year was as follows
At Milford Sanatorium, Surrey 39
At other tuberculosis institutions 155
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