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I ' ir* I 233.: and it's almost entirely in the age group over forty-five, break down and develop active tuberculosis, spreading tu berculosis* 'It's perhaps of some interest that it's at that i age that the mortality of tuberculosis rises in the general! i population, perhaps it's something to do with resistance* ! ! But, now, I can't speculate any further. Next slide -- and I must just point to the future for vnat is going to happen in this valley. And this is a map of the valley as it was in the first of September, 1950,' with all ! the positive cases marked by pins on the map here. There i is `all the cases, in or out of hospitals. This is the samej date, with the cases who were in hospital removed, and I think that it expresses the inadequacy of our present tu j 1 berculosis services, that is the very small-impress ion that: they make on the amount of infectious tuberculosis in a . mining community, but .the Regional'Hospital'Board' said for this special purpose, they would open particular wards i I : to which these men could be admitted and that was Lao posi-j M tion the-1st of October, 1951* the of October, 1951* a- year after the survey started* j This is relatively small, onlyabout thirty-r.Lne | out of the original one hundredtwenty-two are still Ln j the valley, four months later only thirty-eight. The -t.-.ers I are still in hospital or in their graves -and the rer.alr. :er SEVENTH SARANAC -0268