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The staff advised that Information from the Virginia State Department of Health shows that of the 2,252 Virginians who were reported by their physicians as having tuberculosis in 1963, 2,007 were diagnosed as having the active disease. This is an increase of 4.4% over 1962 or a rate of 47.4% per 100,000 who found they had TB for the first time in 1963. Young people have TB, too, according to the Health Department Records bee a u s e 57%, of all the newly reported cases occurred among Virginians under 45 years of age. More men have TB also, because nearly two-thirds of all newly reported cases occurred among men. It costs the State of Virginia and citizens approximately $16 per second for the TB cases under supervision.
Unlikely tuberculosis, cases of noncommunicable longterm respiratory diseases are not legally reportable on diag nosis by physicians to health department. No matter how serious these disease may be individually, or how many people suffer with them, the major statistics available are those taken from death certificates and compiled by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the Virginia State Department of Health. Deaths, excluding tuberculosis, totaled 3,753 in 1963 from respiratory diseases. Deaths are not representative of the number of cases. For each death, hundreds of cases suffer with their effort to
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