Show tuberculosis IN THE PRISON par cent of sufferers Is enormous and there seems but one remedy prom from several investigations that have been made by tile the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis it la is estimated that on an average about fifteen per cent of the prison population of the country Is afflicted with tuberculosis on this basis out of the prisoners housed in tho the penal institutions of the united states at any glyen given time not less than are infected with this disease af V the e islands and other insular possessions were taken into consideration the number would be much larger some soma of the prisons of pennsylvania kansas and ohio show such shocking conditions with reference refe renco to tuberculosis that many wardens admit that these places of detention are death traps similar conditions could be found in almost every state and in the majority of cases the only sure remedy Is the destruction of the old building and the eroc erection tion of new ones |