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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
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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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