Show I tuberculosis Due to Childhood I Infection on I R R. S. S ADOLPHUS KNOPF Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor lessor of Medicine in the D De- De rt of New v York Graduate st-Graduate st te Medical School wrote tiers to sixty of the best known in tuberculosis and disI dis- dis disI I I sea es of or children asking their expert expert- at atch I Ih ce as to the commonest age tich ch h consumption is contracted contract i 4 As I result of f their replies hi his own vast and tl the e latest statistics the subject he comes to to fo ns which may be summarized as I ii ws I Tuberculosis disease in childhood with tuberculosis infection I Relatively rare Tuberculosis 0 is jS exceedingly frequent The may may ma- ma fr y of cases of tu tuberculosis in the thet uIt t had their origin in an infection ring ig infancy or childhood The age at which such an Infection ion Becomes active is most fr frequently qu itly at ator ator ator or shortly after fi fifteen teen years next between between between be be- tween eighteen and thirty years The ages a at which tuberculosis was diagnosed diagnosed diagnosed nosed and apparently contracted most frequently in later life is between twenty and thirty-five thirty years Ne Nearly ly all the authorities agree e that in order to combat tuberculosis successfully successfully suc suc- we must diminish the thes s sources of infection in childhood To this end Dr Dl Knopf makes seventeen suggestions which are published in inthe inthe inthe the New York Medical Journal These in a general way look to strict State Stat supervision and inspection of parents and children schools and homes abolition ab ab- ab- ab of all child chUd labor whether at home in factories or streets open air schools physical tests of all employees employees em em- of all sorts segregation of the education of the masses prevention of perSons persons persons per per- sons becoming parents |