Survey was carried out on medical cares for open tuberculous patients at home in the jurisdictoin of Shibukawa Health Center, the discovered at collective medical examinations before one year, and consequently with relatively short histories, and similar patients in the jurisdictions of 5 Health Centers in Gunma Prefecture, previously registered, and consequently with relatively long histories of the disease. In this survey, various statistical tables were prepared from the view points of the public health and economical conditions, and the following conclusions were drawn :
1. Those receiving medical cares were more public health minded than non-recipients, and desinfection of sputum and isolation were carried out more perfectly with the formers.
2. Rate of receiving medical cares had significant positive correlation with the presence or absence of socialized medical cares, and with their degree.
3. As to economical living conditions of the patients, there were problems with the subresponsible persons for the household economy and the group of low income (annual income of 80, 000 to 120, 000 yen). Namely, they had less opportunity for social security benefit, and further had various difficulties in receiving medical cares.
4. More than 10% or almost 20% of patients receiving medical care were non-eligible for the social security benefit paying all the cost of medical cares. Of the patients receiving medical cares by the social security system, 70% were afforded the benefits under social insurance, and 30% by the livelihood protection law. The rate of medical care recipients among all the patients eligible for the livelihood protection was almost 100%. Only a few eligible for the livelihood protection received medical cares at the onset of the disease, but the number of recipients conversely increased at about 4 or 5 years after the onset, which is the end of period of indifference, as reported by the author in the previous paper.

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