Abstract
We investigated the transition of tuberculous treatment, since our hospital was established in 1966, referring to the fixed number of doctors in our hospital, the number of beds for tuberculous patients, the number of new inpatients, the mean duration of hospitalization, and the mean daily number of new inpatients.
In result, the mean duration of hospitalization of tuberculous patients has fairly shortened, and the mean daily number of new inpatients has remarkably decreased. However, the annual number of new inpatients has scarcely changed, because the whole number of beds for tuberculous patients has decreased in Chiba Prefecture.
On the third Wednesday of November, 1988, the mean age of inpatients was 58.0 years old, and many of them had serious complications.
It is necessary for bringing up and getting the specialists of tuberculosis, that, (1) the education of tuberculosis on university course will be more reinforced, (2) the communication with university and other national medical institutions will be more intimate, (3) the fixed number of doctors will be increased, and (4) the establishment and the instrument will be more supplied.
