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While tuberculosis recently has been forced down to the fifth place in the mortality records for the United States, it still holds first rank as a cause of death during the most productive period of life, from 15 to 45 years, and so remains of such importance as to demand the most careful consideration of medical men. NECESSITY OF EARLY TREATMENT The mortality rate is the least important problem of the disease from the racial standpoint but the most important from the standpoint of the individual. Taking its greatest toll between the ages of 15 and 45, tuberculosis furnishes social, domestic and economic problems of tremendous importance. It causes, on an average, an illness of three or four years for each patient who dies of the disease. The effect of such a chronic illness on the ambition, the efficiency, the business and professional career, the economic attainments, and the domestic
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Dec 7, 1929
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