Show JEWS JEW EXEMPT FROM CONSUMPTION L T P liE J E R ONS WHY JEWS are leas fess subject eu to M 1 tuberculosis t than any other odier people on earth are again pin being Mini discussed di but hut with the usual amount of dissatisfaction OD All medical authorities agree that Jews by all aD rights ought to have more consumption oon than anybody They handle more secondhand cloth clodt clothS ring S tit they diey live Jive more in cities they have hare smaller chest chestand measurements and aDd narrower girths than thu other races According A d ag to the die rules r which obtain elsewhere el there fore folet the Jews Jew should be particularly liable to Jeas Ios ous affections In spite pite of all aU this th though says Dr Fish Fishberg Fishberg berg in American Medicine there is so small a percent percentage par cent age e of consumptives among the Jews sews that diat they may Y Ya almost aImo a t he be said to I Ie e exempt The causes canoes ca for this condi condition tion tian are attributed to various sources The lIte distin distinguished Italian physician Lombroso thinks dunks it is pos po poi i eiby due doe to tt da tI fact fad that the die Jews so 10 generally engage in ia indoor occupations They The are therefore less le s often exposed to W sudden Budden s in the die weather which h so 10 often sow seeds of in n others A French phy believes Jews Jen dont run so much risk of 0 inhaling disease germs r b because Mease they thoy wipe dusty surfaces with cloths instead of rising s C brushes as do Americans One of Germanys GermanY et doctors docton presents the theory that the meat meet Co tion laws Ja of the sews Jews preserves them Pr Dr Fishberg agrees with his German confrere rere l but t thinks it t altogether thc probable that there ar are eon oon r tips C MSS He Ile cites specially the die e r 11 freedom of the Jews from the use of liquors liquor There are many exceptions to his hia general genera rule rules rulee 1 s e there diere are alf exceptions exception to all rules but he says it is rare to tu see eee a drunken I and the use of intoxicants is i known to favor the propagation of the tubercle ba ha bacillus bacill t cillus cill this dus is a high tribute to the Jews Jows as a race raced and d people It is true that they thy are not addicted to tod d in in proportion to other races They are ar abst to n fI marked degree and they thEYO are ar in i the main tk th neat inot i cle ch of people The writer in Amer American American ican Medicine presents some interesting figures from Irma all lands in support of his statement of fact It is 5 only necessary how howver ver to show some BOrne returns from frena the die eleventh census According to these diese figures the die death rate per 1000 among am Jews from consumption was for formales l F males make and for females The average of all an other nationalities in the ilie United States was for mate males and YOI for females It will be he seen that in the ease eaSe of 01 males the Jews Jew are ar and in the case of fe fc females males only anly as Bask to consumption as other nationalities n I |