Show Phthlsls a Persistent Foa From a report by Dr L Schrolter on the distribution of phthisis iu Switzerland It would seem that the Inhabitants even of high altitudes are by no means so free from phthisis phthi-sis as we are iierbaps wont to sup WT1n tnIift pose The tables of death for the eleven years 1S7GS9 show that phthisis la epidemic In every part ol Switzerland not a district being free from 1L On the whole the deaths from this cause arc fewer in the high than In the low lying districts I but cannot be said that the more I tality from this cause Is inversely I proportionate to thAltltude Whenever When-ever berets A largo industrial pop ulttlon Uie plilhUis mortality Ot considerable Indartrinl populations altrays euUVf mitcJf more thin agricultural agri-cultural populations where the altitude alti-tude Is < liefame jLontlon lancet |