Tuberculosis Survey at a Mental Hospital by Miniature Radiography

Tuberculosis in Mental Hospitals

“…Only 13 of the inmates revealed evidence of active or quiescent lung tuberculosis; a further two patients suffered from intestinal tuberculosis. This experience is similar to that of Snell et al (1943), who found that 19 of 48 notified cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in mental hospitals showed either healed lesions or no evidence of pulmonary tuberculosis.…”

“…This is well illustrated by reviewing the bibliography on this subject in the world medical literature. Here one finds that of over thirty papers on this subject only a few (Snell et al, 1943;Clark et al. 1945;Early, 1950) have been published by workers in the United Kingdom; and the overwhelming bulk of contributions have been by United States and Canadian investigators.…”