The basic principle of communicable diseases control is to reduce as quickly as
possible the transmission of the infection in the community. To achieve this, a high
proportion of the spreaders of the organisms must be identified and all the cases
discovered must be provided with effective and adequate treatment. It is estimated that
there are about 226,000 infectious cates in Korea. In view of the vastness of the need
and vastness of the need and limited resources available, the Government introduced the
primary sputum test as a means of case-finding in late 1967. This method is not only
simple and cheap, but also easily carried oils by lay workers with a short period of
training. In the year of 1969, a local of 665,750 specimens wore collected and 24,313
cases were discovered. To find out the factors related to tole case-finding for further
improvement, tile writer has analysed the achievements in 1969 by province, health
centre and myon sub-centre as follows.
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