“…Ghosh and Muckerjee, 1978) and Africa (Johnson and Tsega, 1981;Osime, 1977) areas were primary tuberculosis is poorly controlled. A significant proportion of cases reported from the United States were negroes (Gaines, Steinbach and Lowenhaupt, 1952;Pinto, Zausner and Beranbaum, 1970;Edidin, Des Autels and Baker, 1956) and from the United Kingdom a West Indian (Page, Williams and Benson, 1975) and an East Indian (Chazan and Aitchison, 1960) representing the deprived section of the community of these developed countries. The situation is similar in the Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory where the incidence of tuberculosis is several times higher than in the nowAboriginal population (Strang, 1982).…”