CONSUMPTION
MORTALITY RATES FOR THREE STATES. (BY TELEGBArn—rRESS association—corY.llGllT.) Melbourne, September 19. • Tho death-rate from consumption in Victoria fell from 14.4 per ten thousand in 1889 to 9.5 last year. In Saturday's issue was published a Sydney cablegram indicating tho death-rate from tuberculosis in New South Wales in 1007 was a little under 8 per 10,000. This "compares favourably with Victoria's 0.5 per 10,000, and is also better than Now Zealand's 8.01 per 10,000 in 1008. But in 1005 New Zealand's deathrate from tubercle was down to 7.79 per 10,000.
Sorious as consumption was, said Mr. John Burns recently in the House of Commons, he did not hope so much for its discontinuance and abatement from surgical and laboratory causes and effects as from a boiler informed public opinion. Consumption bo regarded as a social disease, due lo low wages and Imd and insufficient food and accommodation. Tho (loaths from consumption wore in the proportion o.f 1} in London to 2 in Berlin and 2J to 3 1b Paris.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 307, 21 September 1908, Page 8
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169CONSUMPTION Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 307, 21 September 1908, Page 8
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