The number of deaths from tuberculosis is decreasing.
In 1948 there were 1043 new cases of tuberculosis reported in
New Orleans alone, the Tuber-
culosis Assn of N. 0. stated.
Nobody Knows exactly how many cases there actually are since many persons who have the disease are unaware of it in its early stages.
It is estimated that an average active case of TB gives the disease to three others.
Those who are battling the ease either on the public education level of on the medical front agree_ that the problem could be licked if:
Enough beds were available in state hospitals so that all tuber-culars could be treated.
There was a law prohibiting tuberculars from working and forcing them to take treatment. There is a law forbidding them from working in restaurants.
Dr. John Seabury, professor of medicine at the LSU medical school, who is also head of the lung station at Charity Hospital, said "the new and more powerful agents for treating tuberculosis such as drugs and chest surgery, have proved a mixed blessing."
