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ACCORDING to Dr. Alejandro A. Raimondi (J. Amer. Med: Assoc., 208, 121 ; 1943), director of the Municipal Centre of Buenos Aires for a Campaign against Tuberculosis, there were 2,708 deaths from that disease in Buenos Aires in 1941. The increase in the disease is due to the influx of tuberculous subjects from the provinces. The routine practice of taking skiagrams of children has resulted in finding tuberculosis where it was not suspected and also in preventing the spread of the disease. X-ray examination of the chest of apparently normal persons has yielded good results. Tuberculosis has been found in only five cases (1.3 per cent) in a group of 384 students and in only twenty-five cases (3.02 per cent) in 826 applicants for municipal posts.
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Tuberculosis in Buenos Aires. Nature 152, 243 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152243c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152243c0