La lucha contra la tuberculosis y la administración sanitaria
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s.d.1946
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Tuberculosis has invariably followed civilization and has respected only a few isolated communities. The disease first spread in thickly populated centers, and during the beginning of the XIX Century, with the industrial age, the migration of the people to the cities already begun in the latter part of the XVIII Century, it reached its peak. In the most industrialized countries the course of the disease may be represented by an ever rising curve, reaching a plateau during the middle of the last century, and then, going downward. Speaking in terms of space and not time, this downward curve continues in many countries and especially in the Americas The total of 4,318 hospital and sanatoria beds in Chile is insufficient inasmuch as there are about 13,000 deaths due to tuberculosis annually. About 65 million pesos (about $2,600,000.00) are spend anually on the fight against the white plague. Pensions granted by social security during 1944 to persons suffering from tuberculosis amounted to about 5 million pesos (about $200,000.00), or approximately a quarter of the total amount paid out in pesions by that body. In Santiago it was estimated that 20 million pesos (about $800,000.00) were spent by social security organizations on tuberculosis alone. This is slightly more than a quarter of the total amount paid out in pensions there. If this service were extended to the entire country, from 80 to ..(AU)
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Tuberculosis campaign and health administration in Chile
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