THE INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOUS INFECTION IN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS

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Within recent years great progress has been made in the control of tuberculosis in American college students. Five years ago only a few universities were organized for locating early cases of the disease in the student body. Today throughout the country college health services are better developed, either through well organized full time departments or through part time arrangement with local practicing physicians, and the control of tuberculosis has been made in most instances a major part of the health program. This emphasis on one disease is the result of general recognition that tuberculosis is one of the most serious causes of disability in those of college age. The sharp upward trend of the tuberculosis mortality curve from the low level of prepuberty years to the high level of early adult life coincides with the age period of the college student. Moreover, it is now generally recognized that although the

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