Trends in the fight against tuberculosis in the Soviet Union

The problems of epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Soviet Union are analysed. The dominating trends in the fight against tuberculosis include: the decrease in the evidence, prevalence and mortality, the relatively high incidence among male persons who are capable of working in newly detected cases, the increase in patients with social deviations (mainly alcoholics), as well as the integration between specific and non-specific lung diseases in the form of respiratory medicine.