THE WHITE MAN’S SCOURCE.
OPENING OF CONSUMPTION CONFERENCE. DECREASE REPORTED IN BRITAIN. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, July 19. Mr. John Burns, at the opening of the Conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption, stated that the disease during the last decade had decreased by 19 per cent in England and Wales, 24 per cent in botl[ Scotland and Ireland, and 30 per cent in London. There were now two deaths in London, compared with every three in Berlin and five in Paris. Consumption and tuberculosis were diminishing forces, and experts believed their annihilation ought to be effected in twenty-five years.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3275, 21 July 1911, Page 5
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103THE WHITE MAN’S SCOURCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3275, 21 July 1911, Page 5
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