Tuberculosis in Massachusetts . to the terminal stages of tuberculosis. Of those who died at Danvers last year, seven had been in thehospital less than twelve months, and six of these died within sixmonths of their entrance. Again, the misleading possibilities ofstatistics when employed in connection with limited time orrestricted circumstances should be borne in mind. This sugges-tion may be emphasized by noting that while for the hospital yearending November 30, 1907, Danvers had twenty-six deaths fromtuberculosis, —? a mortality per cent, of , —for the first halfof the succeeding or pre
Tuberculosis in Massachusetts . to the terminal stages of tuberculosis. Of those who died at Danvers last year, seven had been in thehospital less than twelve months, and six of these died within sixmonths of their entrance. Again, the misleading possibilities ofstatistics when employed in connection with limited time orrestricted circumstances should be borne in mind. This sugges-tion may be emphasized by noting that while for the hospital yearending November 30, 1907, Danvers had twenty-six deaths fromtuberculosis, —? a mortality per cent, of , —for the first halfof the succeeding or present year, i. e., the six months ending May30, 1908, but three cases of tuberculosis have died in the hospital,— a mortality per cent, of only The shack, or special wardfor male patients with tuberculosis, has been in use eighteenmonths at Danvers, but this fact does not explain the reducedmortality from tuberculosis, although favorable results are beingaccomplished through the aid of this ward. Already it has re-. DANVERS INSANE HOSPITAL AT HATHORNE. — Special WardBuilding for Tuberculous Patients, showing Veranda. PAGE. 91 ceived thirty-four men by transfer from the wards of the mainhospital. Of this number, nine have died, seven of the nine havingshown physical signs of tuberculosis when admitted to the hos-pital. Of the thirty-four so far treated, sixteen are still inmates;thirteen of the number have gained in weight, — an average oftwenty-one and one-half pounds; the other three have lost,—an average of six and one-third pounds. As a rule, open casesof tuberculosis are still cared for in certain parts of the mainhospital, and a few have been too unreliable for residence in thespecial wards. In order to give tuberculous inmates the benefit of specialtreatment in the incipient stages of the disease, a routine tempera-ture examination, four times daily, of all chronic demented pa-tients, and others as circumstances suggest, is repeated severaltimes each year.
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