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The Arneth Blood-Count in Idiocy and Low-Grade Imbecility, with Special Reference to the Incidence of Tuberculosis and Tubercular Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Stanley R. Tattersall  and
Cyril J. Thomas
Stanley R. Tattersall
Affiliation:
County Mental Hospital, Lancaster
Cyril J. Thomas
Affiliation:
County Mental Hospital, Lancaster
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It is well known that the mentally defective population suffers much more from the ravages of tuberculosis in its various forms than does the normal population. In the annual returns of various institutions for defectives, and from a study of the causes of death of imbeciles as reported to the Board of Control, it would appear that tuberculosis kills four times as great a proportion of aments as of normal people. Tredgold (1) gives an analysis of 1000 consecutive deaths occurring in the Earlswood Institution, of which 413 were due to tuberculosis.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 75 , Issue 308 , January 1929 , pp. 64 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1929 

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