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Medicine
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb21120.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , library science
THE success of Australia's anti-tuberculosis campaign is illustrated by a recent survey by the Commonwealth Department of Health's Tuberculosis Division, which reveals the number of hospital beds now retained for sufferers from the disease. Announcing the findings just before Christmas, 1966, the Commonwealth Minister for Health, Dr. A. J. Forbes, said that since 1949, when the joint campaign by the Commonwealth and the States was begun, 2,539 hospital beds previously reserved for tuberculosis patients had been handed over for other uses. Another 406 beds had been closed. Throughout Australia 2,558 beds were still reserved for use by tuberculosis patients.