Show Tuberculosis Death Rate Found Highest Among Young Girls MINNEAPOLIS Girls between b tween 15 and 25 years of ot age have lagged far behind young men of the same ages in the improvement of the tu tu- tuberculosis tuberculosis tu- tu tuberculosis death rate Each year 65 per cent more girls die from the disease than their brothers boy friends and husbands in the 25 15 age bracket according to a study by the Northwestern Na Na- National National National Life Insurance company In the United States tuberculosis does its deadliest work nowadays among women of child-bearing child ages the population segment most vital to Americas America's present and future the study points out Biological differences the differences the greater greaten changes In the female organism at a adolescence make adolescence make girls and young women naturally more susceptible to tuberculosis The male death rate from tuber tuber- tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis overtakes that of women a at t about age 30 and thereafter runs run steadily higher but in the child child- childbearing childbearing childbearing bearing ages from 20 to 35 22 per percent percent pe r cent more women die of tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis losis than do men of corresponding ages The greatest number of ot o deaths from this cause among any year five sex age group occurs occur among young women aged 24 20 and an anthe the second largest group of ot fatali fatali- fatalities fatalities fatalities ties occurs among young women aged 25 to 29 Since girls first reach maximum m susceptibility to tuberculosis in their ther early teens the report suggests that tha all nU high schools should conduct health classes In which effects of o fad diets tobacco alcohol insufficient insufficIent insufficient sleep and scanty clothing are graphically taught It also recommends that parents parent of ot teen-age teen and older girls should act promptly upon observing any symptoms of ot lassitude las even slight elevation of temperature or loss of ot appetite A tuberculin test should be made supplemented by ray X-ray chest exam exam- examinations examInations examinations wherever indicated If It there has been any exposure through association with a case of ot tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis losis In class or elsewhere tests should always be made A case of pleurisy without pneumonia pneumonia monia the report warns should In Inthe Inthe inthe the case of a girl or young woman be considered tuberculosis until def def- definitely definitely proved pr ved otherwise It If tuber tuber- tuberculosis tuberculosis is detected In its early stages and modern treatment Is promptly begun and carried through a cure I is usually assured 00 |