Show science provides provide s methods to save children lives N the e effort effort t to discover dla cover the oar earliest liest IN manifestations of tuberculosis in school children several communities have set out to examine every school child tor for the indications which are revealed by the tuberculin test and the xray X ray in advance ot of outward symptoms the tuberculin test a harmless procedure selects those who are infected and should be examined with the xray X ray in turn urn the latter indicates whether there la Is danger from disease or not the massachusetts department ot of public health was one of the first to begin such a widespread campaign it we was 0 considered a measure of economy as a well W 11 as humanity for or the expense expanse ot of caring for or grownup grown up patients with active disease was found to be a thousand dollars a year tor for each one given sanatorium anat orlum care but when potential future sufferers from active disease could be discovered among young school children the case was quite different not only did this widespread search disclose children in danger from tuberculosis but in many instances it led directly to the discovery ot of an active case in adult members of the tha same family from whom the children had been getting the infection that was preparing them for or a similar destiny one such example was recently described by dr henry D chadwick an outstanding authority on tuberculosis who had bad charge of this work in massa chu metts and now Is ia developing a similar project in the schools school ot of detroit michigan A ten year old girl wits was dim covered with the childhood typo type ot of tuberculosis in a marked degree deer the obvious thing to do said dr advick in reciting tint this was was to find the source ot the disease and protect her from further inflation tion no treatment would mil avail if the continued ll 11 a u ed t to 0 receive further doses of tu bercio bacilli it was doubtful it she ehe could withstand the amount that was wan already producing disease i the field nurse in the district in which the child lived investigated the th conditions at home and was waa successful in getting the parents and the two litters to come to the clinic tor for an a examination one showed the childhood type ot of tuberculosis the other had the adult type involving the upper third of the right lung lit la the latter am cue there were also indications showing that the childhood type had bad preceded the adult type tor for at least a year the source which had spread the h infection was found in the mother who icho had bad the fibroid type of tuberculosis which had bad not been previously recognized case finding methods method swIll will load lead to ft a diagnosis ol of tuberculosis in its early and more curable stages we cannot sit lit in our offices and expect earl early yand and favorable cases to come in tor for treatment we must search them out bo fore the symptoms appear that would lead a person to consult a physician that way seem impracticable or impossible it Is not we must keep in mind that tuberculosis breeds tuberculosis that one case comb from an ot other herand and look for new cases i 1 proximity ot of old ones one T |