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Report of Tuberculosis Officer—continued.
Notes on Tables of Notifications.
Of the cases learned from the death returns, one was a case of
meningitis, three were cases of pulmonary tuberculosis (two of
whom were hospital cases), and the other of whom had been only
two weeks in the borough.
Of the cases notified after death, four were cases of meningitis
and one a case of pulmonary disease.
Four of the non-pulmonary cases died before the end of the year,
three within a month of notification and one within two months of
notification.
28 of the pulmonary cases died before the end of the year.
10 died within a month of notification.
6 ,, „ two months ,,
7 ,, ,, three ,, ,,
Explanations have been requested from notifying doctors in cases
where patients died very soon after notification or from doctors
certifying cause of death where patient died un-notified.