SCOURGE OF TUBERCULOSIS
Lord Horder, presiding at the London conference of the Empire conference on the care and aftercare of the tuberculous, said that while there had been a considerable advance in the past two generations in combating tuberculosis, the tendency to speak of it as being under control was somewhat of an overstatement. In Bunyan's phrase, it was still one of " the captains of the men of death," causing six times the mortality of road accidents, serious though the latter figure was. Diagnosis was somewhat more serious in some parts of the Empire than in Britain in consequence of the lack of equipment, but much had been done, and the pooling of experiences would carry the fight a stage further.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23224, 23 June 1937, Page 15
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121SCOURGE OF TUBERCULOSIS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23224, 23 June 1937, Page 15
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