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bringing hardship and starvation to many families. There is no general form of social insurance in the Colony and the unfor- tunate sufferer must continue to work. A few of the more considerate employers are prepared to continue to pay tuber. eulous employees while they are under treatment, this being the exception rather than the rule: but even so, due to the shortage of hospital accommodation, the sufferer may be obliged to recover as best he can within his own home where conditions and diet are far from suitable. There are undoubtedly many who do recover in spite of such conditions while many others show evidence of having suffered from extensive disease without severe disability and have recovered without special treatment. Hospital accommodation generally falls far short of the requirements. Based on the widely accepted standard of one hospital bed for each tuberculosis death in the year, the accommodation available for the treatment of tuberculosis is about 20% of the requirements.
The details of the notifications of pulmonary tuber- culosis are set out below. It should be noted that the figures in this and in subsequent tables showing age and sex distribution have been reorganized to conform to the standards set forth by the World Health Organization.
NOTIFICATIONS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
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Notifications of Tuberculosis (All forms),
classified according to origin,
Harcourt Tuberculosis Clinic
Government Institutions
Non-Government Institutions
Private Practitioners
Total
3,145
1,123
2,720
522
7,510
Analysis of the pulmonary tuberculosis notifications is extremely difficult without knowledge of the age and sex distri bution of the population. Such information as can be obtained indicates that males are in excess in the adult groups but to what degree is not known.
The same remarks apply also to the deaths from pul- monary tuberculosis which are classified according to age and sex and appended herewith:
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
DEATHS
1948 and 1949,
1949
1948
Age Group
Male Female Persona
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
1949
Age Group
||||||
Female
Pecon
Malo
1948
Farumbe
1947
1946
T
M.
F.
1.
Under 1
17
14
31
Pertsond
12
17
20
18
33
41
33
74
28
Under 1
33
22
55
23
51
69
60
109
17
30
40
42
82
2
15
38
24
62
138
205
3
28
26
54
6-9
16
9
26
4
28
18
AG
17
19
10-14
36
4
$
13
13
19
20
30
5- 9
70
66
185
95
10-14
36
34
70
12.4545
54
149
15-19
16
20
36
15-19
167
111
272
641
299
950
20-24
126
$9
84
210
54
117
133
87
220
143
88
231
20-24
630
220
850
25-29
737
310
1,097
1,242
26-29
80
71
160
689
2,031
30-34
ΤΟΥ
343
1,050
30-34
132
#4
226
242 155
397
266
172
138
256 151
407
35-39
607
319
924
356
$08
1,384
$5.39
150
40-44
332
237
DO
240
590
40-44
130
87
197
+25
116
333
256
116
354
247
1:01 348
45-40
254
136
890
387
Sura
60-64
191
116
307
45-49
35
64
137
55.59
117
97
214
121
129
249
50-54
114
4×
144
92
216
162
154
65
219
140
60 216
60-64
61
61
65-09
27
17
70-74
15
152
112
64
20
28
55-59
T3
48
121
24
69
60-64
41
31
71
50
118
53
41
94
49
35
84
78-79
80-84
3
65-69
17
25
42
85 & Over
70-74
6
18
12
30
9
15
14
7
12
19
12
Unknown
0
0
0
16-79
It is a noteworthy fact that only 522 notifications were made by private practitioners, an average of 1.5 per practi- tioner.
80-84
85 & Over
Unknown
NOO
3
5
1
1
2
Id
0
0
0
+
1
0
1
→
2
2
2
5
2
0
ሰ
0
0
→
14
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