Report of the Commissioner of Public Health / Western Australia.

  • Western Australia. Public Health Department.
Date:
[1973]
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Credit: Report of the Commissioner of Public Health / Western Australia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WESTERN AUSTRALIA : TUBERCULOSIS INCIDENCE BY COUNTRY OF BIRTH, 1961-1973 : FEMALES Country of Birth Population at June 30, 1971 Incidence per Thousand Persons Total Notifica- Thousands (Census) 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1989 1970 1971 1972 1973 tions 1961-1973 U.K. and Republic of Ireland .... 74-8 0 23 0 29 0 31 0 26 0 36 0 15 0 18 0 18 0 12 0 14 0 20 0 16 0 09 122 Germany 3-5 0 34 0 34 0 34 0 33 0 33 5 Greece 2-3 0 55 0 52 0 50 1 11 0 43 0 43 0 43 0 87 10 Italy 13-4 0 68 0 27 0 26 0 09 0 58 0 29 0 08 0 08 0 33 0 08 0 41 0 15 0 15 39 Netherlands 5-0 0 39 0 22 3 Poland 2-0 0 53 0 56 2 10 1 00 2 00 1 00 0 50 1 00 17 Yugoslavia.... 3-9 1 67 1 60 0 43 0 34 0 34 0 51 0 51 15 Other European .... 5-9 0 75 0 73 0 25 0 75 0 75 0 68 0 45 0 68 0 45 0 68 0 34 29 Other Birthplaces.... 19-3 0 45 0 29 0 14 0 45 0 15 0 15 0 20 0 82 0 51 0 61 1 33 0 47 0 36 61 Total non-Austral- ian born 1301 0 34 0 36 0 29 0 28 0 34 0 19 0 19 0 24 0 25 0 19 0 37 0 21 0 18 301 Australian-born 371-3 0 16 0 16 0 13 0 14 0 12 0 09 0 08 0 12 0 ll 0 11 0 09 0 11 0 08 440 Table 10 PATIENTS FROM WHOM ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIA WERE ISOLATED (FOR THE FIRST TIME) IN 1973 Type Casual Isolations Persistent Isolations Atypical Tuberculosis Pulm. Non-Pulm. Total ! Total M. kansasii 1 1 l Scotochromogens 4 6 6 10 M. intracellulare 49 8 8 16 65 Rapid growers .... 8 1 1 9 Total Patients 61 8 16 24 85 Table 11 MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASE OF LYMPH NODES IN CHILDREN Year Scoto- chromogenic mycobacteria Identified M. intra¬ cellulare Identified M. TB (Human) Identified Cultures Negative 6 Total Cases 1961 . 1 1 2 1962 . 3 2 2 7 1963 . 3 8 n 1964 3 i 4 8 1965 . 1 5 6 1966 . 2 6 7 15 1967 . i 3 9 13 1968 . 2 9 5 16 1969 . i 5 5 11 1970 . 3 2 5 10 1971 . 3 3 6 1972 . 3 7 5 15 1973 . 6 8 i 15 Total number of children .... 21 53 1 60 135