1. TUBERCULOSIS IN STATE MENTAL HOSPITALS
- Author
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James W. Macdonald
- Subjects
Hospitals, Psychiatric ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,education.field_of_study ,Tuberculosis ,business.industry ,Mental Disorders ,Mortality rate ,Population ,Prevalence ,Male mortality ,Active tuberculosis ,medicine.disease ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Pulmonary tuberculosis ,medicine ,Humans ,business ,education ,State hospital - Abstract
One hundred thirty-two cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis from a patient population of 10,500 in 5 state hospitals were studied. Seventy-one of these were from the Mayview State Hospital servicing Pittsburgh. Biostatistically consistent comparisons could thus be made with data obtained for known cases of active tuberculosis in Pittsburgh not confined to mental hospitals. To answer those questions posed in the introduction: 1. There is a prevalence rate of 13 cases per thousand of actively tuberculous patients in the population from 5 of Pennsylvania's state psychiatric hospitals. The prevalence rate was 21 cases per thousand of active tuberculous patients at Mayview State Hospital. This population was derived entirely from Pittsburgh where the prevalence rate for active tuberculosis in the general population not in mental hospitals was 2.7 cases per thousand. The tuberculosis mortality rate for these patients was 270 per 100,000. Male mortality rate was 300, and female rate 240 per 100,000. The genera...
- Published
- 1960