By arrested case shall be understood all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis which:(a) During the last six (6) months of hospitalization have shown no adverse changes in their pulmonary lesions according to clinical and radiographic studies;(b) during the last six (6) months of hospitalization, have shown a negative sputum for the tuberculosis bacillus, such sputum being examined by the concentration method;(c) show no clinical symptoms of activity of tuberculosis for the last six months of hospitalization. History —July 1, 1947, No. 19, p. 96, § 2.
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