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Tuberculosis
The new cases admitted to the tuberculosis register during the
year numbered 122, classified as follows:
Males Females
Pulmonary 61 Pulmonary 49
Non-pulmonary 6 Non-pulmonary 6
Of the total additions, 60 were primary notifications, 61 were
transferred from other districts, and 1 came to notice in other ways.
For the same period, 106 names were removed from the register
for the following reasons:
Recovered 14
Death 21
Otherwise (including removals) 71
After allowing for the additions and deductions, the state of the
register at the 31st December, 1953, was as shown in the following
table:

The total of 901 is 16 more 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 ... 27
At other tuberculosis institutions ... 168
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