Show Deaths From Maladies s Decrease WASHINGTON March 25 Famil Famil Familiarity larity with hospital work is making the world safe from disease dlease Sur Surgeon eon General Cumming Gumming of the public health service declared tonight in a statement statement statement state state- ment showing tre decrease in deaths from various maladies The surgeon general asserted that the great war to tobe tobe tobe be waged during the next half century is to be one to eradicate disease conserve conserve conserve con con- serve health and lengthen life Ufe This war var he added has indeed I already been begun and has not a few triumphs to its credit Some ome of these are re well reflected in the annual death rate in the United States which during during dur dur- ing ing the last twenty years has dropped per hundred thousand of the population population population tion for typhoid fever from to 92 for measles from to 39 for fever to 28 for diphtheria from 43 3 to for tu tuberculosis tuberculosis tu- tu from 2019 to 1256 1255 for Tor pneumonia from 1805 to 1236 and for all causes cause from 1755 1765 to 1288 it fl J yellow jellow fever has been eras erac and smallpox and are being held at bay J a |