Three sets of questions pertaining to general aspects, diagnosis and treatment and, preventive aspects of TB were introduced to the general population, in Jaipur, to assess the extent of their knowledge about TB. A total of 1,000 persons, consisting of 740 males and 260 females, were interrogated in this survey. 380 belonged to rural areas and the rest to urban areas; 860 persons were literates and 140, illiterates; 650 came from a low socio-economic group in comparison to 350 from a better economic status. Responses in all the three sets were separately categorised as correct when more than 50 percent of the answers were correct. Analysis of all the answers was correlated with socio-economic factors. Though the urban population had better knowledge about general and diagnostic aspects of TB, both populations were poorly acquainted with its preventive aspects. General knowledge about TB was poor in the illiterate, low socio-economic population and high in the literate, high socio-economic group.

A study was conducted at the NDTC to study 450 patients who included 225 patients who were non-cooperative in treatment. The patients were interviewed by six students from the Delhi School of Social Work and data on the patients’ socio-economic background, the period of treatment until they became irregular (those who failed to visit the clinic twice or more after repeated attempts at retrieval) or non-cooperative, their diagnosis, status at the time of their irregularity or non-cooperation, and the patients’ reasons for irregularity or non-cooperation, were filled in uniform schedules. The results and the major reasons for the patients’ irregularity and leaving treatment are presented. Measures to minimise patients’ default in treatment are recommended. Some supplementary remarks and suggestions on this study are presented by S.P. Pamra in the report on the 20th National Conference of TB and Chest Diseases Workers, Ahmedabad, India, Feb. 1965, p. 225-230.