Abstract
An annual chest mass survey for Pulmonary Tuberculosis was performed on all the patients at this leprosarium in the year of 1975, the results obtained were as follows:
1) The number of the patients having abnormal tubercular X-ray findings, including the calcification of the hilar nodes and/or lung fields was 85.69%.
2) Stable and non-cavitary tuberculosis viz. V-type and IV-type were 75.74% and 0.81% respectively.
3) Unstable cavitary tuberculosis, namely, II-type was 3.13% in the male and 0.4% in the female.
4) Therapy should be applied more concentratedly to the cavitary tuberculosis.
5) In comparison with the number of the dead tuberculous patients about four years ago, no Hansenian patient here has died of pulmonary tuberculosis since that time; therefore the chest mass survey here is successfully on the high road of well-controlling of pulmonary tuberculosis in this leprosarium.
Nevertheless, more efforts are positively necessary for the better treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in order to eliminate the cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis.
