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Severe physical and mental stress (which may also weaken the immunologic resistance to TB [5]) was incurred during wartime in both civilian workers and those occupied in ammunition production or in military service. Innes, for example, explains the higher percentage of female deaths compared with pre-war years in the county of Rochdale (near Manchester/England), with the more extensive employment of women in the heavy industries for longer hours with less time and energy to devote to housekeeping [11].