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Table 15.
Diagnoses of tuberculosis for natires not x-raved
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7s
District and island
oF atoll
'
Tots!
‘
Estpan: Saipan
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Totai
cases
u
Idtand
,:sCé@Pdiss
Aabelthuap
Pelelu Island
Satawal Istand
j
Sonsoro! Estland |
Yap [slands
+
’
Marshall [slands
{|
Atluk Atoll
|
KRwaraew Atoll :
_ Mafuroatol
i
|
Tabdal [stand
.
PalmonaryJ
|
9
!
3a
I
4
4
1
4
1
1
-
1
-
5
4
I
l.
-
1
-
2
i
19
2
4
1
_ Tuberculosis
ras
;
| Active j Arrested
6
B
PO
Tsiand
Fais Island
Koror Lland
Nd Atoll
-
sme
-
-
Lymph
nodes
Male
genitalls
6
MM
1
1)
2
3
1
13
-
1
2
8
1
-
1
3
-
-
-
I
1
1
-
-
1
-
!
3
-
-
3
1
-
-
Other
30
-
“2
-
3
-
2
8
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
,Bronchus)
Pee be ee be bee ceeee
-
1
2
|
Skin
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
~
-
-
-
-
tests. Two test-strength dosages of tuberculin, 0.0001 mg PPD and
9.00002 me PPD, were used for the tests, the latter dosage being
used early in the programanc occasionally when the 0.0Uu01 me PPD
dosage was not available.
On most of the islands in the Marshall
Islands district the 0.0001 mg PPD dosave was used, while primarily
the 0.90002 mg dosage was used in the Palau district.
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Table 16.)
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.
Distribution of islands bv percent of
positive tuberculin tests
Percent of positive|
tuberculin tests |
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.
Under 9
10 to 19
2 to 29
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"Saipan
Total. district
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:
3
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-
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Palau
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2
a
4
a
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2
40 to 50
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® to 39
10 $9
30 to 79
60 and over
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8
3
j
1
|
1
4
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<
1
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1
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1
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Islands
district
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Both dosages
were used in the Saipan district. Fron: Babelthuap Istind, where the
.
:
WAKKH me PPD tuberculin dosage was used on about one half of the
tested population and the 0.00002 me PPD tuberculin dosage was
6
4
-
5
-
1
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