Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1918 — IS AS FATAL AS WAR [ARTICLE]

IS AS FATAL AS WAR

Tuberculosis Kills as Many as Fall From Bullets. Dr. Livingstone Fhrrand Appeals to People to Enter Battle Against Disease. New York—Mortality from tuberculosis among the civilian population and in the armies of all the countries engaged in the war has at least approximated the total number of soh diets killed In battle, according to Dr. Livingstone Farrand, director of the American commission f6r the prevention erf tuberculosis in France. That the people of throw themselves into the winning of the war against tuberculosis with the same seal with which they have hurled themselvea.again&t the Hun is the burden of an appeal made by Doctor Farrand on the eve of his return to France. ' " 1

“To make our country really safe we must first make it healthy,’* is the slogan Doctor Farrand suggests for this war against disease. Of the men called to the colors by the first draft 90,000 were found to be tubercular. This is one of the striking indications of the prevalence of the disease. “While the war has thus effectually disclosed conditions which existed before, rather than produced these conditions, it is also true that in indirect ways it has substantially increased the tuberculosis problem in the European countries involved," says Doctor Farrand. - . “I refer not to the situation in the armies, where the mode of life often rends to reduce this disease, but to conations which affect the civilian population.” increased food, clothing and housing costs necessitating, among the lower wage groups, diminished quantity and quality and their resultant undemutrition, are given as contributing causes. A nation-wide campaign against the disease and for adequate provision for rejected and discharged soldiers suf-

sering from it is planned through 1.50 G local societies of the National Tuberculosis association.

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