Medicine: Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis antagonists last week at last had something to say more audible than the claims of the cancer, heart disease, pneumonia and even leprosy people. If their demands for public attention and support have made the undiscerning U. S. suppose that tuberculosis was diminishing in this country, they last week, through the National Tuberculosis Association averred that it has been increasing in at least the larger cities. Thirty-eight cities last year recorded 24,471 deaths, 430 more than in 1927. One softening of the picture was that those same cities increased their populations...

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