AGENCY: Department of Health. Bureau of Communicable Disease Control

SERIES: 7554
TITLE: Tuberculosis statistical summary annual reports
DATES: 2009.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological

DESCRIPTION: These are statistical reports documenting the contacts of tuberculosis patients. These reports are sent to the local health departments and to the federal government. Included in the summary is the investigation and narrative report. Information contained within these reports includes the case number; district or county where case was reported; date the case was reported; date of three month medical follow-up; number of contacts identified; number of contacts given skin tests up to 8 weeks after exposure, the percentage of contacts tested and number tested positive; number of skin tests given from eight to twelve weeks after exposure, percentage tested and the number that tested positive; total number of close contacts that tested positive, number and percentage treated; and the number of contacts other than close that tested positive, number and percentage treated.__This last figure is divided into 2 groups, 35 and under, and over 35.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

APPROVED: 10/1986

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 3 years and then destroy.

Paper: Retain in Office for 2 years and then destroy provided the annual report has been compiled.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Fiscal

The quarterly reports do not need to be kept after the annual report is compiled. The annual report should be retain three years. The bureau staff uses the annual report as a reference tool.