Download or read book Fourth Annual Report of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment, and Prevention of Tuberculosis written by Joseph Walsh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment, and Prevention of Tuberculosis: February 1, 1906, to February 1, 1907; An Account of the General and Special Clinical and Pathological Work Done by Members of the Staff at the Institute During the Year There has been a slight increase during the year in the per centage Of native born patients. During the first year were native born, during the second during the third and during this year The percentage of native born, who are the children of native born, that is, native born for two generations, has decreased a trifle. It was during the first year, during the second year, 31. 37% during the third year, and this year. The foreign born patients have slightly Changed their relative positions. The order, from the highest number down, among those, worthy of note is Russia, Ireland, Germany, Italy, England, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Roumania. Scotland, which in the third report stood after Austria, has fallen out of the rank of countries worthy of mention, and Hungary, Poland, and Rou mania have come up enough to bring them into this category. Italy has changed places with England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.