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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13671, 9 April 1908, Page 7

Striking comparisons^ between the relative mortality, of war and of con- 7 'sumption, were drawn, by Dr. Lawison, j the medical superintendent at Bancho-; ry Sanatorium, in Glasgow., recently. In the great wars of the eighteenth , I century 14,000,000 lives were lost'; in 5 tho same period the. "white death" 1 Slew' !f! f 30,000,000. Annually, af- present 5,000,000 throughout . the -world— i* 1,000,000 in Europe aloncf-dio of pulI- inonary disease. It is, however, gratifying to know that during the last, ten \vears a marked fall in the mortality fhas been manifested. } The Lafads and Survey Department j announces the opening of seven sep-, tions for selection on the optional sys-. tern, also the sale of town and suburban sections for cash. ' Mr . Heldt requeststh.it all, accounts owing t6 him be settled by the ,21st' inst. , . , . • •