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it l.:i- I...-H generally a knowledged thai tuber- 



! The discovery of thi* specific 



orga 4s) was reserved to the great 



M demonstrated the 

 mac of all 



IVNJ. U- 



-n-at |.li\>iriun and U-ne- 



r of mankind. \\hi 110 has indeed 



n a great lorn n<> to the ant i tuberculosis cause but to 



ContmiiM disease, that is to say, habitually 



ist.s in all rivili/.i-d countries. Wild tribes 



! I* oplc succumb to th<- <lisase, as a nil* 



lly as soon as they coin t< t \\ith iviliiation. The 



might find amnn^ th.- N ric-an Indiana 



the Negroes and th.-ir descendants now living in 



tin- t'i. aes. According 'he 



Bon -inmto (Canada 



loeis is dang .t among th.- lil- ! Indians of the 



iriada. Of every hundred deaths which occur 



hi*-. t\\rnty-t>i' : i-- to consumption. Since 



i a rr><r\atinn und<T the supervision of 



Mt.thrv. -> hou Id be considered 



lr. 



ilosis among the colored popu- 



u of thr United Stat<- is alarmingly high. Accord: 



- ly ti Hates Bureau of the 



I-'in. thr muni. :n all form- of tul*T- 



nil. MH. i h v ton, \i r . in 1908 was 166.9 



among thr \\hitr |H>pul :( ti " among the colon 



that th- rausr of thr increased 



moriality ai dian- and N LTH- i- t. IH- ascribed not U) 



thr l.|ri| l: .^, 



j, alrohoILsm, ami r\i-i >>> of all kind% 

 iccompany ( ivilizing ag 



- I'uMishrd concerning 



om tuU-rrulosis in thr Tnitoi States 



that v, t tliink it inv-Hsary to reproduce 



in tlrtail any of thr |>ubli>lu-il taMrs. luit will content our- 



s with some general statement.*. It t* now universally 



ailmitt. -d il. -Is is the mo nt cause of death. 



ig to some statistics every seventh, according to others 



