352 TUBERCULOSIS AS A TYPE OF BACTERIAL DISEASE 



The Prevention of Tuberculosis 



At the present time much attention is being directed to the 

 administrative and personal control of tuberculosis. How greatly 

 this is needed in so preventable a disease is evident from a perusal 

 of the following table from the Kegistrar-G-eneral's reports : 



ENGLAND AND WALES 

 ANNUAL DEATH-RATES FROM ALL TUBERCULAR DISEASES 



The following is a table of death-rates to a million living (England 

 and Wales), 1880-1901 (Reg.-Gen. Annual Reports): 



Tabes mesenterica is a term applied to tuberculosis of the alimentary canal and 

 mesenteric lymph glands. 



Tubercular meningitis is the name of the same disease as it affects the mem- 

 branes of the brain (acute hydrocephalus). 



Phthisis is the term applied to " consumption," or tubercle in the lungs. 



These figures show a marked decline in the three worst forms of 

 the disease. But this decline is less marked in tabes mesenterica 



