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The total deaths in the Colony from Tubercular Diseases during 1921 amounted to 1894, while the total deaths from all the principal Notifiable Infectious Diseases and including those from Malaria, Influenza, Measles and Dysentery which are not notifiable amounted to 1,280. This group of diseases includes, from those which are notifiable, Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers, Plague, Small-pox, Cholera and Diphtheria.
The difference between these two totals shows 614 more deaths from Tuberculosis than from all the other dangerous Infectious Diseases from which the Colony suffers in Epidemic form either continuously as in the case of Malaria or from time to time as in the case of Plague, Cholera and Small-pox giving a ratio of 100 to 47.9. Tuberculosis takes its steady toll in deaths year by year and attracts no great notice.
W. W. PEARSE, M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
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The total deaths in the Colony from Tubercular Diseases during 1921 amounted to 1894, while the total deaths from all the principal Notifiable Infectious Diseases and including those from Malaria, Influenza, Measles and Dysentery which are not notifiable amounted to 1,280. This group of diseases includes, from those which are notifiable, Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers, Plague Small-pox, Cholera and Diphtheria.
The difference between these two totāls shows 614 more deaths from Tuberculosis than from all the other dangerous Infectious Diseases from which the Colony suffers in Epidemic form either continuously as in the case of Malaria or from time to time as in the case of Plague, Cholera and Small-pox giving a ratio of 100 to 479. Tuberculosis takes its steady toll in deaths year by year and attracts no great notice.
W. W. PEARSE, M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
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