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146
Non-Pulmonary Cases.
1. Notified after death .. Patient died from tuberculous meningitis seven
days after admission to Hospital.
2. Unnotified Died in hospital. Death certified by Coroner
after post-mortem examination.
3. ,, Died in hospital. Death certified by Coroner
after post-mortem examination.
4. ,, Admitted to hospital suffering from measles.
Investigation of these cases, therefore, failed to reveal evidence
of wilful neglect or refusal to notify.
For years past it has been the practice, in every case in which
it appears that notification might have been made before the death
of a patient, to draw the attention of the certifying practitioner to
his duty under the Regulations to notify within 36 hours after
making a diagnosis of tuberculosis.
As shown in a foregoing table, the deaths from tuberculosis of
Hackney residents registered during 1937 numbered 130. These
deaths are classified as follows:—
Pulmonary tuberculosis 116
Tuberculous meningitis 12
Renal tuberculosis 1
Tuberculous sacro-iliac joint 1
130
This number of deaths gives an annual mortality of 0.62 per
1,000 inhabitants.