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Of the above 375 were notifications of new cases,
282 being of pulmonary and 93 of other forms of tuberculosis.
The sex and year of the notified cases is given
in Table IX.
The marked decline of the notifications will be seen
on reference to the tuberculosis statistics, given in
Table XIII.
Mortality from Tuberculosis.—142 deaths, 66 of
males and 76 of females, were registered from pulmonary
tuberculosis corresponding to a death-rate of
0.89 per 1,000, which is the lowest recorded, and 0.4
per 1,000 below the average of the preceding five years.
30 deaths were due to other tuberculous diseases,
giving a death-rate of 0.19 per 1,000. Of the 142
persons certified as having died from pulmonary tuberculosis,
26 had not been notified as suffering from the
disease, of whom 3 were inmates of lunatic asylums,
and 16 died in hospitals or poor law infirmaries.
The following table gives the time that elapsed in
notified cases between the first notification and death.