Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — PHTHISIS IN FRANCE. [ARTICLE]

PHTHISIS IN FRANCE.

Conanlar Cleric Reports 1.50,000 Victims a Xpert-,. Startling statistics of ,the of tuberculosis in France are contained in a report rendered to the bureau of manufactures, Department of Commerce and Labor, by Consular Clerk Augustus E. Ingram, at Paris. Official statistics discussed by the Academy of Medicine in the French capital, lir. Ingram states, show that 150,000 persons die of tuberculosis in France every year, representing thirtynine deaths to each 10,000 inhabitants. In Germany the rate is only twentytwo deaths from tuberculosis to every 10,000 inhabitants, but chronic bronchitis is counted as tubemilosis in

France, and not in Germany. The cases of chronic bronchitis listed as tuberculosis are estimated at 50,000. Mr. Ingram says in part: “Prof. Landouzy’s investigations among policemen and postal employes, both of whom have also very insanitary offices —indeed, the public complaints against the' impure air in postoffices In Paris are most frequent—and also among laundry workers, have revealed a disastrous condition <sf affairs. Also among 247 workmen carefully kept under observation by Pro. Landouzy, consisting of carpenters, joiners, floor layers and packers, all living under practically the same conditions, the mortality from tuberculosis amounted to more than 30 per cent. “Laundry workers, however, were found to be the most seriously affected. From statistics made at Billancourt, Boulogne-sur-Seine, and certain districts in the neighborhood of Paris where laundries abound, the mortality from tuberculosis reached the alarming total of 75 per cent. “The Paris bakers a few days ago formed an organization for the improvement of insanitary conditions under which they have to work. It is stated authoritatively that despite the governmental inspection of bakeries and the most modern hygienic appparntus, out of 400,000 bakers in Paris, 240,000 suffer with tuberculosis.”