[Measures for intensifying antitubercular work in the Kazakh S.S.R].

The data on the condition of the tuberculosis care service in the Kazakh SSR are presented and stabilization of the epidemiological indices observed in recent years is indicated. This required activation of prophylactic and therapeutical efforts in tuberculosis control. With this, a working group for coordination of tuberculosis and brucellosis control attached to the Central Committee of the Kazakh SSR Communist Party was established in 1987 and tuberculosis control was under way that year. The surveillance coverage of the general population was 70.7%. The proportion of the new cases detected during the prophylactic examinations in the total contingent of the registered tuberculous patients amounted to 65.3 per cent. The proportion of the patients with destructive tuberculosis decreased within a year from 36.7 to 35.5 per cent and that of the patients with fibrocavernous tuberculosis lowered from 1.3 to 1.2 per cent. The rate of cavern closure in the new cases increased from 83.7 to 84.9 and that of pulmonary tuberculosis recovery, from 24.1 to 24.9. The activity of the tuberculosis service in the infection foci has become more intensive and the tuberculosis epidemiological indices have improved.