FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1940.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
It Can't Happen Here-- Health Service Tests Hit Hard at Tuberculosis
By Gene Kuhn, c'40
Effectiveness of the University health service's program of tuberculin testing has been shown in that since 1932, when the diagnostic test was initiated, all cases of tuberculosis have been diagnosed in the early stages before clinical symptoms appeared. Dr.R.I.Canuteson, director, said today.
The early diagnosis of tuberculosis greatly increases chances of the student's recovery, the period of invalidism shortened, and, since the cases $ ^{\circled{}} $ have not reached the contagious stage, the public is protected against infection. culosis and is responsible for spread of the infection. Most Receive Chest
Prior to that time, tuberculosis was diagnosed on the basis of symptoms, history, x-ray findings, and sputum examination. It was not unusual, Doctor Canuteson said, to find a case of moderately advanced active tuberculosis.
One student," Doctor Canutson said, "in a far advanced stage was brought to the dispensary because her coughing disturbed the sleep of her roommate. They are now both dead of tuberculosis. Examinee 9:414 Students
In the past eight years we have examined and tuberculin tested a total of 9,414 students, which includes only 120 tuberculin tested in 1932 and which were not classified by age and sex. Of the remaining 9,294,6,239 were men and 3,055 women.
"The total of positive reactors was 3,150 or 33.46 per cent, of which 2,295 men and 810 women. The percentage of positive reactors among men was 36.78 per cent and 26.51 per cent among women."
This is in line with findings throughout the country, Doctor Canuteson said. Women, however, show a higher incidence of active tuberculosis than men in the same age group.
Purpose of the tuberculin test, Doctor Canuteson explained, is not only to find active cases of tuberculosis, but to find the cases that have become tuberculin sensitive. The tuberculin sensitive person has been infected with tuberculosis, he said.
The examination is valuable in investigating the student's family and associates to learn which one is or has been an active case of tuber-
Doctor Canuteson said that with few exceptions, all student examined who had positive tuberculin tests also received chest x-rays at Watkins Memorial hospital. The number of students failing to complete the tuberculin tests and x-rays varied from 27 to 101 each year.
Reasons advanced for this failure to complete the tests were the belief that the tuberculin test was harmful or painful; parental objec-
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