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KMID : 0377619760300060693
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1976 Volume.30 No. 6 p.693 ~ p.699
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Leprosy in Taegu City -As a Sample of One City
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金重明/Kim, Jung Myung
金在植/鄭祥立/Kim, Jae Sik/Chung, Sang L.
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Abstract
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The types of, leprosy, thestatus of ,leprosy control, birth places, the ages of onset, the present, ages, the occupations, the levels of education and living condition were; investigated on the 859; patients registered.
The total number of the registered from Jan. 1957 to July 1974´was 1,038 pati￢ents composed of male 633, and female 405. It came out that the real number of the patients, registered was 859 patients at the present time with some reasons as below.
The types of leprosy were composing of the lepromatous, tuberculoid, indeter￢minate and borderline types in 41.3, 38.4, 15.4 and 4.8 percent respectively. In an aspect of leprosy control it is closed only 8.6 percent has had the treatment while 79.7 percent has had no treatment beside 11.7 percent which were to be unknown. Among the patients received the treatment, 48.5 percent was under the regular treatment while 51.5 percent was under the irregular treatment.￢
The bacterial positivity was found to: be 24 percent while 57.2 percent wag. negative,
From the status of registration of the all patients, ,it disclosed- the most high" , numbers in 1968 as 9.5 percent by year, and 11. 9 per-cent in June by month
The number of the patients who changed their actresses was 2. 8 percent of the, total registered patients and the number of missing and double registration cases was considerable as 5.8and 8.8 percent respectively from the total number of the patients 1, 038´ registered. In distribution of the patients by the birth-place the
only 17.7 percent of 859 patients authorized by the registration was born in Taegu city while the remainder was born in other place. In the age distribution more than 72. 6 percent were above 31 years old and the most high incidence in the age group of the 16.20 years in the age of onset as 16. 5 percent. The edu￢cational and living levels were appeared to become more high, and the commerce seemed to be the major occupations of the patients.
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