FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.
Telegraph Press Association CoDyrieht Paris, Oct. 3
President Loubet opened the International Congress on tuberculosis at Paris.
Sixty foreign delegates were inoluded amongst nearly 3000 scientists attending. Dr Theodore Williams, consulting physician to the hospital for con sumption at Brompton, stated that in England the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis had decreased twothirds in 60 years. Dr Williams declared that, in order to fight tuberculosis successfully, it was necessary not only to fight the Koch bacillus, but the mode 9of life which lay the human body open to the attacks of bacilli, such as contagion, poverty, unhealthy dwellings, badly ventilated factories, damp soil, and alooholism.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 61, 4 October 1905, Page 3
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