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Show PHTHISIS AS DEADLY AS WAR Expert Says That in Four Years It Has Killed as Many as Have Died in Battle. The war has served effectually to disclose that during the four years of hostilities mortality from tuberculosis to the civilian population and in the armies of all the countries engaged lias at least approximated the total number of soldiers killed in battle, according !o Dr. Livingstone Farrand. As director direc-tor of the American commission for the prevention of tuberculosis in France Doctor Farrand will resume his work overseas within a few days. He returned to the United States for graduation exercises of the University of Colorado, of which he is president. "To make our country really safe for democracy we must first make it healthy," is the slogan Doctor Farrand suggests. Of the men called to the colors in this country's first draft summons 50,-W 50,-W were found to be tubercular, his "Ppeal states. This, it declares, is one of the striking indications of the prevalence prev-alence of the disease in the United States. |