Show prisons a as Death trapa trape I 1 that 16 per cent of the convicts in the tha united states are arc victims of tuberculosis bercu losis t IS the statement contained conta ineil in a bulletin issued by the national association for or the study anil and prevention of tuberculosis there are 12 prisoners in state federal arid and local prisons nt the states with less than 25 specie institutions and barcley SOO eds tor for their treatment ment some of the prisons of pennsylvania syl vanla and ohio show nia shocking condition conditi onit with reference to tn tuberculosis that many wardens alett that these places of detention are deathtraps death traps in the majority malo rity of cases the only sure cure remedy Is the destruct de aton of the old and tho the ereo erect uon of new ones onel concluding the bulletin engsi tho the flata that prisoners are alq charged fram the jails dud os of the country annually ha that 10 to 15 tide cent of thern them have m jafee a ke problem ot len places place 3 r tor or thip thet treatment while slilla they are ara 1 0 serious one J 00 0 |