CAMPAIGN AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 February 1913, Page 4

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS.

COMMENTING on the publication of a special number of the "Practitioner, giving the best scientific opinion upon the methods of preventing and treating tuberculosis, the "London Daily Mail" says that if the available knowledge could be brought home to all, it 'is no exaggeration to declare that the deathrate from this disease might be reduced to at least one-third of its present figure. As proof of this there is the fact that the mortality in the professional class to-day is only one-third of that in the less educated classes. It is the advance of knowledge that, has brought about this reduction, for a generation ago there was no such difference in the figures. The two chief

points of the greatest importance are that the disease should be recognised as early as possible —to pnevent the infection of others—and that immediate steps should then be taken to effect a cure. For, whereas science is as vet almost powerless in the presence of cancer, it can. in the vast majority of cases, heal tuberculosis. Thousands of lives might, be saved with a little attention and care were consumption treated m its earlier stage.