THE WHITE SCOURGE
At the opening meeting of the Tul»roulosis Conference in Paris on October 17, slated a Heater message, Sir Robert Philip, Professor of Tuberculosis at Edinburgh University, said that the only portions of the globe unaffected by tho ravages of consumption were those which civilisation had not yet penetrated. Tuberculosis appeared on the arrival of colonists, and' increased with commercial activity. Sir Robert declared that this was tlio vicious result of an incomplete civilisation, and furnished clear proof that two things should ho kept in mind in combating tuberculosis, namely, the germ and the environment. Both could be effected by. international measures of administration, the most important of which was the compulsory notification of ttio disease.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 63, 8 December 1920, Page 7
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118THE WHITE SCOURGE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 63, 8 December 1920, Page 7
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