[Medico-social characteristics of inpatients with pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Mediko-sotsial'naia kharakteristika bol'nykh tuberkulezom legkikh na statsionarnom étape lecheniia.

A questionnaire survey of 103 patients with active tuberculosis of the respiratory organs provided evidence on social factors contributing to more frequent onset of destructive tuberculosis, complications, discharge of M. tuberculosis, associated chronic bronchitis and ulcer. These were: serving sentence in prison or reformatory, poverty, alcoholism. X-ray diagnosis of tuberculosis provided earlier detection of the disease reducing the number of complications and invalidity.