Immediate Results of Sanatorium Treatment

Recent Trends in Survival of Patients with Respiratory Tuberculosis

“…Therapeutic trials have left little doubt about the value of modem treatment, and the present investigation suggests that by effecting a striking improvement in immediate prognosis it has profoundly altered the pattern of mortality. The same methods are also producing very much higher sputum conversion rates (Snell, 1953), and the consequent reduction in the amount of infectious disease is likely to accelerate further the decline of mortality.…”