Show STATES AWAKING TO DANGER Additional Hospital Beds for the tho Treatment of the Tuberculosis Arc Are Being Established Nearly additional hospital beds heds Tor Cor or consumptives In 29 states were provided during the year ending Junei June Juno i according to a stat statement ment Issued by bythe bythe bythe the National Association for the Study and Prevention of ot Tuberculosis This makes makes makes' a total of or over beds but only about one for every ten Indigent tuberculosis patients in this country In the last five years the hospital provision for consumptives has Increased increased increased in In- creased from in 1907 to over in 1912 or over per cent New rev York State leads in the number of beds having on June 1 Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Mas Mas- comes next with 2800 and Pennsylvania a close third with 2700 Alabama showed th the greatest percentage percent percent- age of In Increase rease In the last year by addIng adding add add- ing lag 57 new beds to Its 42 a year ago Georgia comes next with beds added added added add add- ed to a year ago New York has the greatest numerical increase havIng having haying hav hay ing provided over additional beds In the year |