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PHTHISIS OR CONSUMPTION.
The deaths registered from this disease were 102, compared with 111
in 1919, 165 in 1918, 149 in 1917, 115 in 1916, 147 in 1915, 133 in
1914 and 119 in 1913.
There were also registered 12 deaths from Tubercular Meningitis and
13 from "Other Forms of Tuberculosis."
The total deaths from Tuberculosis equal a rate of 0.95 per 1,000 of
the population, just about one-tenth of the total general death-rate.
The rate is less than in 1919 and that of preceding years.
Of the 102 deaths from Phthisis, 76 were of persons notified during
the year in conformity with the Tuberculosis Regulations.
The periods elapsing between notification and death in these were as
follows:—
1 to 3 months 22
3 to 6 „ 15
6 to 12 „ 39
The number of persons notified during the year as suffering from
Phthisis was 187 and from "Other forms of Tuberculosis " 65.
Of the former 110, and of the latter 5, received treatment in
Hospitals or Sanatoria. Altogether 149 persons from this area had
such treatment under the County Council's Scheme.
Under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1921, issued in
April of this year, "Every Medical Officer of Health shall from time to
time, but not less often than once in every quarter, revise the Register
of Notifications. by removing from such Register the entries
therein relating to notifications in respect of persons who have to his
knowledge died or have ceased permanently to reside within the
District for which he is Medical Officer of Health."
The first part of these instructions have always been carried out, but
the second can only be performed if the County Council co-operate by
sending regularly the names of those who cease to reside within the
District.
I was in hopes that the Sanitary Inspectors would have been able
during the year to visit every house from which a notification was
received, but unfortunately the pressure of other work prevented them.
There were at the end of the year 2,384 names on the Register of
persons suffering from Tuberculosis in its various forms. Of these 812
are of the non-pulmonary type.