TUBERCULOSIS IN FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 25 July 1907, Page 4

TUBERCULOSIS IN FRANCE.

MOKE SERIOCS THAT IX EXULAXD. la France tuberculosis seems to lie even a more serious scourge than it is in England. To fight the evil, it is suggested in La Revue, that a sanitary inspection should be made of the houses in the towns, which are nests of the disease. Twelve years ago a work of this kind was undertaken at Paris by M. Juitlerat, and in other cities, such as Brussels, Berlin, and others, something of the same kind has been attempted. Every house in certain inunitary quarters of Paris has its dossier, writes Francis Mury. This document records a deeription of the house, a plan showing drainage etc.. a list of deaths due to transniittable diseases, particular* of disinfection, etc. Between 181)4 and \<m about 80,000 such dossiers were drawn up. They show that in that period iu the houses dealt with nearly 140,000 deaths took place, over 101,000 of which were due to tuberculosis. When one of these old houses disappears the dossier is preserved and attached to the flossier of the new house on the same site, so that useful sanitary comparisons may be made. In Ibis way. Nt any rate, the houses where tuberculosii exists may be discovered. But something more is Decenary. A plaque to be fixed on each house to show that it is sanitary or daugerous abode is suggested as a" means of protecting the public against "houses which 'kill."