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Show Tuberculosis Patients Neglected. Out of more than 225 public hospitals hos-pitals for the insane, with a population popula-tion of fully 150,000, only 70,- or less than one-third, make any provision for their tuberculous inmates, and this, too, in spite of the fact that the percentage of deaths from this disease is very high among this class of people. peo-ple. Such is the substance of a statement state-ment made recently by the National Association for the Study and Prevention Preven-tion of Tuberculosis. Seventy hospitals hos-pitals in 28 states, providing all told about 3,350 beds for tuberculous insane in-sane patients, sums up the provision made for Uiis class of sufferers, although al-though the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis among the insane ranges from 50 to 200 per cent, higher than among the general population. |