Chicago's Tuberculin Testing Program
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County wide tuberculin testing.
During the past 25 years tuberculin testing surveys have been used extensively and effectively in Minnesota’s fight against tuberculosis. The program started in the schools. S. A. Slater, Southwestern Minnesota Sanatorium, Worthington reported testing 1,654 rural children in 1924. The idea spread slowly at first but soon gained momentum. Now hundreds of communities in this state have routine ye...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1928
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.18.1.36