IMPORTANCE OF TUBERCULIN TESTING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN— A TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR STUDY

Abstract

Speaking before the New England Pediatrics Society, Boston, March 12, 1926, Allen K. Krause, Baltimore, said, "It is now almost ten years since a large proportion of the children of your neighboring community of Framinghan was being tested for tuberculous infection. Their infants then have now entered late childhood and their children become youths. If a new series of tests were now performed on Framingham's children, comparable in number, age and condition to those tested from 1917 on, any marked deviation from the figures of a decade ago would render the study one of the most important and significant ever undertaken in the epidemiology of tuberculosis. Standing alone, the results of Framingham's test of 1917 to 1920 mean comparatively little. They merely confirmed what was already common knowledge. But, set over against a new series of records, they might serve to lend scientific support to new concepts of the epidemiology