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It will be seen that the figures are divided into various
headings and sub-headings.
The first division is into insured, uninsured adults and children.
The only reason for dividing the uninsured from the insured
is that the insured are to a certain extent, viz., as regards treatment,
provided for by the National Insurance Act. From the point
of view of the Tuberculosis problem it is an artificial division.
Children are taken separately, as they constitute a widely separated
factor from adults in the problem. Under each of these
headings various other groupings are given.
(1) Most important is the division of the number of patients
having Tubercle Bacilli in the sputum from those who have not.
The record of the number having Tubercle Bacilli in the sputum
is so important that I would recommend that a chart be made to
record it in diagram from year to year, and hung in some readily
seen place, as in the Public Health Office. It should be a record
of the total number of Tubercle Bacilli + cases in the Borough.