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Show Fighting Disease in Greece. Consul General George Horton has made a report from Athens on the conspicuous work of Greek physicians in combating the country's chief scourges malarial fever and tuberculosis. tubercu-losis. An annual average of 2,000 persons die each year from the former, for-mer, while in epidemic years, due to excessive rains, the number exceeds 6,000, which was the case in 1905. The population of Greece is 2,433,806. The people have been interested through lectures, pamphlets, etc., to fight the malaria-carrying mosquito by draining stagnant ponds and throwing petroleum petro-leum on them. A tuberculosis congress con-gress will be held at Athens next year, to which will be invited not only physicians, but all the mayors and other prominent people of Greece. |