Public documents of the State of Connecticut . 40. The fact that this region now contains a large number of Ital-ians will undoubtedly in a few years increase the number of casesof phthisis ; for these people, coming from an out-door lifein the Italian climate to an in-door life in our New Englandclimate and living crowded together in small rooms, are especiallyliable to infection. As yet the local tubercular death-rate amongthem has been low. This is due to the fact that when their lungsbecome affected they almost invariably return to Italy. The dis-ease is, however, undoubtedly on the increa
Public documents of the State of Connecticut . 40. The fact that this region now contains a large number of Ital-ians will undoubtedly in a few years increase the number of casesof phthisis ; for these people, coming from an out-door lifein the Italian climate to an in-door life in our New Englandclimate and living crowded together in small rooms, are especiallyliable to infection. As yet the local tubercular death-rate amongthem has been low. This is due to the fact that when their lungsbecome affected they almost invariably return to Italy. The dis-ease is, however, undoubtedly on the increase among them. So faras the personal experience of the writer goes, both in private anddispensary practice, tuberculosis in the case of Italians tends torun an unusually rapid course ; haemoptysis seems to be an espe-cially frequent and fatal complication. In reviewing our statistics it was noticeable that the number ofdeaths from tubercular meningitis was unnaturally small. Thefact that very young children would be especially liable to house. 4 I 1. E lir k^publicdocumentso9223conn
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