RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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culosis, to arrive at a more effective program of
case finding in the community, and to learn more
of the relationship between childhood tuberculosis
and subsequent breakdown in adult life.
The final purpose, of course, is the development
of an effective program of tuberculosis control.
The Foundation is also aiding an epidemiological
study of tuberculosis by the Cornell University
Medical College and the New York Hospital
which aims to obtain further insight into the
character, frequency, and mode of spread of
tuberculosis in the districts about the
New
York Hospital Tuberculosis Clinic, to determine
the value of control procedures now in practice,
and ways in which they may be improved.
Cooperative tuberculosis work in Jamaica began
in 1928.
At that time a tuberculosis dispensary
was established to afford an opportunity
for a detailed study of the disease as found in
colored races in a tropical country. In 1931 this
study was extended into the homes of the people
to acquire more detailed knowledge of the
epidemiology of the disease. Extensive surveys
were carried out and, as a result of the information
obtained from the dispensary work and from
the surveys, it was possible by 1933 to recommend
to the government an acceptable plan for
the control of tuberculosis in the colony. Wide
interest in the control of tuberculosis was aroused
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