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(Chest. 1952;21:102-107.)
© 1952 American College of Chest Physicians

Chest Surveys of the Aged

EDMUND G. BEACHAM M.D., F.C.C.P.1 and STANLEY H. MACHT M.D.2

1 Assistant Chief, Tuberculosis Division, Baltimore City Hospitals.
2 Chief of Radiology, Washington County Hospital, Hagerstown, Maryland.

1) Mass surveys of elderly persons in a home for the aged are difficult to carry out.

2) The incidence of old, inactive pulmonary disease is high.

3) Quite the opposite of other reports in the literature was discovered. The incidence of active pulmonary tuberculosis in the aged is very low in this group probably because of the careful screening admission examination. In this study only three active cases of tuberculosis were discovered and one of them was a known case already under observation.

4) The incidence of diseases, other than tuberculosis, is high. Especially common were lesions of the cardiovascular system.






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