Fighting Consumption.
Consumption or tuberouloßia has been the subject of early and more vigorous efforts to check its transmission in Prussia than elsewhere as is natural considering that Dr Koch is a Berlin professor. The result iB that while from 1875 to 1887, before his discovery, the deaths from tubercle or consumption were 31 in 10,000, since 1887 there has been a gradual decrease to 25 in 10,000. Elsewhere thiß decrease has .not taken place. Prussian prisons and insane asylums show a reduction in their death cats from tuberculosis, since careful precautions were adopted. The death rate from this cause among religious nursing orders was in 1881-2 114 per 10,000. In 1893-4 it had dropped to 67, almost half. Facts like these show the absolute neceßBiby of careful precautions for destroying the sputa of consumptive patients. Bigoroub oare in thiß direotion would greatly deorease a disease to which a large proportion of deaths are due. — Philadelphia Press.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5357, 7 September 1895, Page 7
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157Fighting Consumption. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5357, 7 September 1895, Page 7
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