Show INCREASE IN INI CONSUMPTION I IN NEWYORK Alarming Statistics Presented Presented Pre Pre- by Nathan Straus at Tuberculosis Meet I DAIRY CONDITIONS BLAMED FOR SHOWING Number of Cases Listed Third One More Now Than in 1907 I I I WASHINGTON W May 13 That That the vigorous campaign against tuberculosis has failed to e check cleck the great white plague was the startling charge chargo made today by Nathan Straus the New York philanthropist at the fifth annual meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing of the national association for the tho study and prevention of tuberculosis Mr rr Straus backed up his assertion by official statistics from the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York health department showing an increase of 33 per cent in two years rears in incases incases incases cases of tuberculosis in the city that Dr Koch described as leading the whole world in tho the fight against the disease Tho The reason for tor this failure to make headway Mr Straus declared was the neglect of the mischief wrought by bythe bythe I Ithe the dairy cow Citing the results of scientific investigation and his own eighteen years years years' experience in saving saing lives he summed up by saying sayin that the abolition of tuberculosis would woul begin when it was made a crime tos to s sell milk unless it came camo from tuberculin tested 1 1 cows or had been properly pas pas- |