Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — Tuberculoisis Patients Neglected. [ARTICLE]

Tuberculoisis Patients Neglected.

Out of more than 225 public hospitals for the insane, with a population of fully 150,000, only 70, or less than one-third, make any provision for their tuberculous inmates, and this, too, in spite of the fact that the percentage of deaths from this disease Is very high among this class of peo-, pie. Such is the substance of a statement made recently by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Seventy hospitals in 28 states, providing all told about 3,350 beds for tuberculosis insane patients, sums up the provision made for this class of sufferers, although the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis among the insane ranges from 50 to 200 per cent, higher than among the general population.