Show Financial Loss Through Tuberculosis Based on the census of 1000 It is estimated by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis Tu-berculosis that nearly 100000 children now In school will die of tuberculosis before they aro 18 years of age or that about 0400 die annually from this disease Estimating that on an I average each child who dies of tuberculosis tuber-culosis has had six years of schooling the aggregate loss to the country In wasted education each year amounts to 1152000 According to Investigations Investiga-tions made In Now York Boston and Stockholm the percentage of children who are afflicted with tuberculosis Is much larger than the death rate would indicate |