RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION 47
among the people. Dispensaries for the diagnosis
and treatment of tuberculosis have been established
in thirteen of the fourteen parishes. Infirmaries
for the care of advanced cases have
been provided in eight of these parishes and are
under construction in two other parishes. Arrangements
are being made to erect a central
tuberculosis sanatorium of one hundred beds at
Kingston. The tuberculosis work in Jamaica is
part of a larger health program busily engaging
all the public health forces of the island.
The Foundation is also interested in the Epidemiological
Bureau of Denmark, where it is
cooperating in field and laboratory research.
During 1935 the bulk of the work under the
special Foundation grant related to tuberculosis
and, more specifically, to an investigation dealing
with tuberculin.
Cooperation in an investigation of tuberculosis
in Eisenstadt, Austria, was begun in 1932. The
work is carried on as part of the Eisenstadt local
health department activities. At present it is
estimated that about 60 per cent of all the open
cases in the area under observation are known,
and efforts are under way to search out the remaining
40 per cent. The Foundation has made
a contribution for the continuation of this work,
which will involve the use of a portable x-ray
apparatus. During 193S efforts in Austria were
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