Language

English (en)

Date of Award

1933

Degree Type

Open Access Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Abstract

From the report of the Tuberculosis Controller for 1931-1932 we found that over forty-one percent of those who died from tuberculosis were colored. "The mortality rate based on population in the colored race increased from 318.4 per one hundred thousand in 1930 to 381.9 in 1931. The rate of the white group increased from 58.4 per one hundred thousand in 1930 to 70.4 per one hundred thousand in 1931. The colored death rate as compared to the white in 1931 was 5.42 to one. A comparative study of deaths by district shows that out of twenty-six districts one district alone, Beaumont, was responsible for twenty per center of the total death rate and forty-five per cent of all the colored death rate…. It was because of the social significance of the above facts that the executives of the Provident Association encouraged the present study. They were interested in knowing such things as the number of their colored families in which a diagnosis of tuberculosis had been made on one or more members of the family, together with identifying data about them; the facilities available for the diagnosis and treatment of colored tuberculosis patients, and those used by the group; the stage to which the disease had progressed in these clients when it was diagnosed; the length of time the clients had been known to the family agency in relation to time of diagnosis and the beginning of treatment, to the type of treatment, or to date of death in those cases where the patients did not survive, the number of other members in the family who had tuberculosis in addition to the patient referred to in the study; and the number of other members of the patient's family group who were examined for tuberculosis.

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