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distress to a heavy proportion of the population. Close co-operation
exists between the Chest Physician and your Public Health Department
and I am in regular contact with Dr. Shneerson. Every case is visited
by members of his Department to deal with the social and medical aspect
of the case, and by members of my Department to deal so far as this may
INFANTILE MORTALITY SINCE 1900.
be possible, with the environmental conditions. Newer methods
of treatment, both surgical and medical, will undoubtedly help to
arrest or cure the disease, particularly so when cases are diagnosed in an
early stage. It must be remembered however, that tuberculosis is an
infectious disease and must be treated as such. If it were possible to
apply to the tuberculous person the same methods of isolation as one
can to other infectious diseases of shorter duration, it is probable that the
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