| Show GERMANY LOSING HOME HOE MAN POWER tuberculosis taking big toll of the population FOOD CRISIS THERE ACUTE continued Bicke rings as to food conditions prevailing in different parts parti of germany london morning post declares war has become in truth rea really ily a question of human endurance it Is becoming increasingly clear every ery luy lay says nil article in ili the london morning post that the war li Is not being waged only nt fit tile ho front the war lun has become in truth a war between nations there tire no longer annta on either side it Is a question freidly of endurance la in the lust last stages of the struggle and in the testing ahne that lies before the ot of the people jit t lionte home will probably bo be tile find determining factor as aa to the issue it II li 14 not what the inflated laed rhetoric of tile day calls calla a question of oc the last farthing unit the last mun but of tile general determination find endurance oc ol 01 the lie mass 0 of the population on tills this aspect of affairs it Is most important to know in ili so BO fur far as that Is possible how far the ho strain Is telling on tho the other side to rather gather together tiny any reliable indices as afi to what conditions tire aro actually prevailing mere vague general statements are of little or no value what ono one wants if they van lio lie had tire nrc statements that lint are arc full fall and precise that can bo be weighed and measured so BO its as to give something like alko tin nn indication of tile the ulf dif ference from froin the nominal il null and prewar conditions In fornia lion ion of tills this full and precise character la Is not ilot easily cosily rot got nt at occasionally however set of faess coules to light which gives something tangible on which li to baso base our estimate of loss deaths from tuberculosis one of such sets la Is tile lio record of deaths from tuberculosis it disease in which tile lie general conditions us its to nourishment contribute materially to tile incidence of mortality there tire arc available returns of deaths death front from tills this ill disease sease in fit it very largo large number of places in ili Geri nally representing sonic some thing like two utelis of the population of the empire ein pire these show nn an enormous increase in deaths on the num nuin hers bers recorded in the manic before the war liere hero are tile numbers of such deaths tot for the lie first six sir months last your year us its contrasted with those for the citino period in 1013 for the different divi of tile the german empire pa i no of 0 no or of inc federal draths deaths per 1 state to 1913 1817 1917 C cent ei it prussia 77 i 2243 40 saxony 1751 1754 2898 ca aji 40 vad on 7 1094 45 M 84 0 1 ad alsace barral orralee n e 44 other oilier sta Bt atos ge so 60 total 78 it will mill ile bo seen boon that the Inc ronse in the numbers find of oc dentas from froin tills this scourge Is marked in every part of tile the empire but that tills this increase Is not by any so grout grent in tho the south acarman Cleri tian Du vitria Wurt and aladen as in sta fila and saxony continual I 1 i it Is matter of common knowledge that thero there have been continual blek consa its as to tile tho food conditions prevailing in n differ different vot parts ot of germany and that it is alleged again and again that Ilav arlit in ili particular Is bettor better off ou la in this respect than tile others complaints have appeared with ilk great regularity that WEIR ilot bearing her share ot of tile tho coinman common burden in ili this respect and that her refusal to allow foodstuffs to bo be exported 0 to o wis was nn an net act of selfishness whatever ground there may lie bo for such accusations they tire arc borno out by tile tho figures above quoted it the numbers of deaths tit in tile the towns in fit question are a fair index of tile lie general conditions prevailing this current year would give n death roll of something like two hundred thousand persons from the great white scourge As far as information that may fully be rolled relied upon Is available the situation in ili this respect Is much the suma same in the ilia dual monarchy na its it Is in ili germany that information Is practically confined to tile three cities VI anoa and budapest |
