Abstract
Among the unhospitalized “active infectious TBC patients” whose actual conditions were previously reported, 455 patients were surveyed and examined two years later through public health centers. A clear tendency was observable in 414 patients (91%), whose 78 were positive for TBC bacilli in the examination of sputa at the end of 1971 and 336 were negative, and the following conclusions were obtained.
1) In terms of the prognosis of the 414 patients, the numbers being registered con-tinuously for medical treatment were 355, the cured 13, and those who moved 4, and the diseased 28. The cause of death of 12 patients was non-tuberculosis.
2) An improvement was noted in the great majority of the patients both in the pulmonary tuberculosis classification of the Japan Tuberculosis Society and in the sputa examination, and in the progress of conditions of the patients. There is a clear difference between the bacilli positive and the bacilli negative patients in aggravation of conditions of the pulmonary tuberculosis during two years.
3) The bacilli positive patients who had been a short period of time after the discover of the disease and these who had been in the hospital, progressed satisfactorily,
4) In this investigation, the bacilli positive patients who refused hospitalization at first for economic reasons such as house-hold economy or home management were persuaded tobe hospitalized finally.
5) The total number of the admitted patients in two years after the first investigation was 43, The bacilli positive were 20 (32.8%) and the negative 23 (8.4%). In many ad-mission cases of the bacilli positive there was a history of previous hospitalization.
