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X-ray survey, and the ground is well over one hundred per- '
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cent. Where it gets over sixty, where it's difficult to i
get some of the old men and old women out, the survey was |
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done in winter which is a mistake, because it's difficult
to get them out and convince them their X-rays have any |
relevance to the health of the community, so you just com- 1
pare this with the business figures published in this
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country, where a careful census has been taken according j
to county, and considerably lower figures, and this inter- j
eating drop in the young, the men presumably too busy, and !
the women with too many children to be able to leave and j
case to the X-ray.
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I But anyway, that remarkable achievement there, I j
think, shows that he has succeeded in getting nearly all j
the cases of tuberculosis, except some of these here, on
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X-ray. Well, now, the results of his experiment won't ce
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available, of course, for five or tan years. 3ut meanwhile*
there are some interesting points from the prevalence point of view, which are relevant to our problem. This
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shows the numbers actually X-rayed, miners, ex-miners and j
non-miners, the adult females and the school children. Tnei
infants in the school areas .were not examined, .twenty-me
thousand more.
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In the course of this survey. Doctor Cochran and j
his team have - his team of four, in six months, they r.as '
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