Show DOCTOR fiNDS NEW NW CAUSED BY AUTOS NEW KEW YORK Feb 24 Tho t. Tho gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- M MI I line driven automobile has hag added a new I disease o to the woes of c civilization a a i disease which ma may cut ten ton years off oft tho the life of tho the persons afflicted I would I call it automobile disease anti have discovered that not only in New York in streets frequented by such stick motor motorcars ears cars but in Paris Pari London an and Berlin it also exists Dr Henry Beck Becker r. r a physician made inside this statement last night after conducting conducting con COD ducting t tests st for nearly a year car on patients pa pa- heats suffering from the tho bo new malady which affects tho the ti tissues of the throat and lungs causing congestion ld D dc decay and giving in i a a. working area for the bacilli of consumption pneumonia grip rip and ind Dd other affections peculiar to the respiratory organs organ About a year ago o the tho doctor said a n man whom I later found to be bo a member of tho the traffic Equa squad stationed on Fifth avenue at a point where gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line lino fumes from Irom tho the cars often choked choke him came camo to mo sue complaining of chronic sore bore throat threat His case baffled me inc Examinations Ex Ex- showed it was no ordinary disease and I con conducted an tion I found that whoa when the bluecoat had bad been beon transferred to a district not haunted by motor cars he got ot well Other similar cases came to my att attention at at- t and I communicated with physicians in European cities The in ternat onal investigation proved that my tentative theory was ri right bt Some Sonio devico device should be bc used to absorb absorb ab ab- ab the thc fumes from the those machines as they endanger el probably thousands of lives live daily especially those of tho the traffic squad l policemen I |