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Average length of time before going to Sanatorium—
Men, 7.1 weeks; Women, 11.6 weeks.
Average length of time before going to Hospital—Men,
14.2 weeks; Women, 3 weeks.
Average length of stay in Sanatorium, 3.01 months.
The average time which elapsed before patients entitled
to insurance benefit were admitted to the Sanatorium was
two months, whereas I am given to understand that in the
case of the Post Office employees the period averages 7 days.
One cannot help feeling very strongly that unless this
period of two months can be very materially shortened, we
are not getting the real value from the Sanatorium treatment,
as during these two months the patient has probably progressed
considerably for the worse, and that period of time
may often turn the scale on the wrong side.
On 1st February, 1913, the new Regulations with regard
to the notification of Tuberculosis, which included nonpulmonary
forms which were to be notified on the strength
of evidence other than that derived solely from tuberculin
tests, came into force.
Anthrax.—No cases were notified during the year.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—One case occurred during the
year.
Cancer.—During the year 54 deaths have been registered
as due to the different forms of malignant disease or Cancer,
17 males and 37 females.

The death-rate for the year was .92 as against 1.07 last
year, and .91 in 1911, the average for the past five years being
•87.
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