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disease among contacts and the introduction of X-ray surveys in factories made possible by the gift by UNICEF to the Medical Department of a mobile X-ray unit. The true increase

in morbidity is difficult to assess.

169. The facilities available for the institutional treatment of the disease remain pitifully inadequate with little prospect of improvement for those in the lower income groups and with the existing conditions; the general emphasis must remain on out- patient treatment which is even under the best of circumstances a very poor second best, particularly if the unfortunate in- dividual must remain at work during the period of treatment.

170. The available figures are as follows:

Year

Estimated Notifica- population tions

Deathe

D/N Ratio

Death rate per

1,000,000

estimate

population

1929

802,800

2158

248.7

1930

838,200

1994

23.7.7

1991

840,473

1988

235.0

1932

900,812

2042

224.4

1933

922,643

22995

-----་

241.2

1934

944,492

2179

230.7

Tuberculosis (all forms)

Notifications and Deaths.

1935

966,341

2237

231,5

1936

988,190

2416

244.6

Death ralo

1937

1,281,982

4028

Year

Estimated population

Notifica- tiona

нет

314.2

Deathe

D/N Ratio

1,000,000

estimate

1938

1,478,619

4920

31E.T

population

1930

1,750,256

7591

4443

1 to 1.7

267.4

1920

648,160

2082

$21.9

1940

to

192)

825.114

1894

303.1

1016

→

1922

14-1+

638,300

2006

328.3

1946

1,600,000

2801

1762

1 to 1.6

-----་

109.6

1923

667,900

2108

215.6

1947

1,750,000

4856

1861

******

1 10 24

106.0

1924

695,500

2358

330.0

1948

1,800,000

6274

1961

прини

1 to 3.2

108.9

1925

725.100

2201

215.9

1949

1,857,000

7510

2611

1 to 2,8

140.0

KLIKN

1926

L

710,100

1912

269.2

1950

2,265,000

9047

3249

1 to 2.8

144.0

1927

740,300

2123

286.7

1951

2,013,000

13886

4190

----LE

1 to 3.3

209.0

1928

766,700

2537

320,9

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