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been made of the presence of tuberculosis in a newly 

 born child. The tubercle bacilli are rarely found in the 

 circulating blood, and individuals or animals which are 

 promptly removed from tuberculous parents do not 



DEATH RATE FROM TUBERCULOSIS, ALL FORM5 



I9IO AND I92O 



COMPARISON FOR CERTAIN AGE CROUPS 



necessarily become diseased. It is also known that 

 tuberculosis is extremely rare in foundling asylums 

 and that in thousands of children autopsied during the 

 first year of their life tuberculosis is hardly ever found 



