Tuberculosis Case Finding with Mobile Photo-Roentgenographic Unit in Sumner County, Tennessee
Year: 1946
Type: article
Abstract: SINCE 1929 tuberculosis case finding clinics have been held regularly by the Sumner County Health Department.From 1929 to July, 1939, this service was furnished through the Division of Tuberculosis Control of the Tennessee Department of Public Health and con- sisted of clinics held once or twice a month in Gallatin for the examination of known cases, contacts to such cases, and individuals referred by private physicians because of symptoms.Any resi- dent of Sumner County was eligible for examination upon referral by his family physician.With the assistance of the Commonwealth Fund, a special Tuber- culosis Control Program was inaugurated in July, 1939, which was aimed particularly at the treatment of tuber- culosis in the absence of adequate hos- pital facilities.Sufficient personnel and equipment were supplied to carry on an intensified case finding program with the treatment program.In this program four x-ray clinics a month were held in Gallatin, the county seat, and one each in Portland and Westmoreland, the two other largest community centers in the county.The number of cases of reinfection tuberculosis in need of collapse therapy and other treatment was sufficient to warrant the expenditure of funds under *This investigation was made possible by the financial support of the Commonwealth Fund.the control program.It was felt, however, that the proportion of early cases of tubercufosis discovered through the Health Department clinic was lower than it should be, and that another case finding method should be tried.Through a gift of the Commonwealth Fund, the Division of Tuberculosis Control of the Tennessee Department of Public Health purchased a mobile photo-roentgeno- graphic unit for use in Tennessee; and
Authors: R. B. Turnbull, W. B. Farris, Mildred Patterson
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Commonwealth Fund
OpenAlex ID: W2039137435