Tuberculosis in France. Current epidemiologic status and evolution over the last 10 years

: By evaluating the statistics of the cause of death, the current reports of antituberculous clinics and the information gathered from the tuberculosis registers of certain departments, an epidemiological survey in France shows that there were 2,048 deaths due to tuberculosis in 1981 (3.8 per 100,000). The level is steadily falling; these were 8.2/100,000 in 1970. It is the same for morbidity, the incidence of all forms of tuberculosis was 54 0/0000 in 1972 and 26.9 in 1980. In the register in the Bas-Rhin the level fell from 70.5 to 30.4, in the Rhone from 41.6 to 14.4 and in the Hautes Pyrenees from 22.2 (in 1973) to 15.3. In the Bas-Rhin the prevalence has fallen steadily: 233.3 in 1972 to 97.7 in 1979. Foreigners are five times more affected than the French by respiratory forms and 8 times more for extra-respiratory tuberculosis. Those who came from Black Africa are the most affected.