Show WHITE PLAGUE MAKES Startling Statement by Nathan II Straus Who Leads Fight on Tuberculosis PUTS BLAME ON DAIRY COW REMOVAL OF TONSILS ADVOCATED ADVOCATED GATED AS A REMEDY Washington Wa May 13 That the vig vigorous orous campaign against tuberculosis l lI has bas failed to check the great preat white I plague was the startling charge made today by Nathan Straus the New York philanthropist at the fifth flUh annual meet meeting meeting ing lug of the National Association for the Study and nd Prevention of Tuberculosis Mr Straus backed up his assertion by official statistics from the New York health department showing an Increase of 39 33 per cent in two years ears in cases of tuberculosis in the city that Dr Koch described as leading the whole world in inthe inthe inthe the fight against the disease The reason for this failure to make headway Mr Straus declared was the neglect of ot the mischief wrought by the tuberculosis dairy cow Citing the re results results suIts of or scientific investigation and his bit own eighteen years y experience in sav say saving savIng ing log lives he summed up by saying that the abolition of tuberculosis would be begin begin begin gin when it was made a crime to sell milk unless s it came from tuberculin tested cows or those tb se which had been properly Pasteurized Need of Hospitals Because of illness of oC the president Dr Vincent Y Bowditch of New mer Folkes of New York City vice president presided In his address Mr Folkes declared deela that one of the pressing pres needs now was wat for adequate hospital provisions for consumptives in the intermediate and advanced stages The report rep rt of the executive secretary Livingston Farrington showed allowed a new membership of or making a total of 18 During the year thirtyfour out of or forty state legislatures had consid considered con d ered tuberculosis legislation The number of ot state and local socie societies societies ties for the study and prevention of tu tuberculosis tuberculosis formed during the time year was making a total of SO special tu tuberculosis tuberculosis dispensaries established 85 S making a total of m and the tho number of sanitariums and hospitals for tuber tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis was 86 making a total of or 28 II with a bed capacity cap eit of over |