Medical and surgical report of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York . rict nurses engaged in the supervision of tuberculous patientsin their tenement homes. In many cases the nurse has referredpatients to the clinic who had not suspected their disease and itappeared probable that additional cases of tuberculosis wouldbe found where tuberculosis was already known to exist, theopportunity for household infection, especially for children,being most apparent. This view has been further emphasizedby the opinion, recently expressed by Holt,^ that tuberculosisin infants in tuberculous ho
Medical and surgical report of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York . rict nurses engaged in the supervision of tuberculous patientsin their tenement homes. In many cases the nurse has referredpatients to the clinic who had not suspected their disease and itappeared probable that additional cases of tuberculosis wouldbe found where tuberculosis was already known to exist, theopportunity for household infection, especially for children,being most apparent. This view has been further emphasizedby the opinion, recently expressed by Holt,^ that tuberculosisin infants in tuberculous households is far more common than isgenerally supposed. In nineteen months he has seen sixty-seven cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in infants in whom thediagnosis in over 80 per cent, was made by finding tubercle bacilliin the sputum. Many of these cases presented no symptoms ofthe disease. The ordinary methods of diagnosis, satisfactory enough usuallyin the case of adults, are inadequate when applied to children,the difficulties being much greater in the latter case in reaching. FIG. 1—A NEGATIVE VON P1RQUET REACTION
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