Show IS AS FATAL AS WAR tuberculosis kills as many as fall from bullets dr farrand appeals to people to enter battle against disease isea york mortality from tuber among the civilian population and in the armies of all the countries engaged in the war has at least ap the total number of sol diers killed in battle according to dr farrand director or ohp american commission for the proven alon of tuberculosis in france that the people of america throw the melies into the winning of the war against tuberculosis ith the same zeal ith which they have hurley themselves the diun Is the bur jien of un appeal made by doctor far rand on the eve of hla return t france to make our country really safe we must first make it healthy Is the slogan doctor farrand suggests or this war against disease 0 the men called to the colors by the first draft BO were found to be tubercular this Is one of the striking indications of the prevalence of the disease while the w ar has thus effectually disclosed conditions which existed be fore rather than produced these condl lions it Is also true that in indirect anis it has substantially increased the tuberculosis problem in the european countries involved says doctor farrand 1 I refer not to the situation in the armies where the mode of life often tend to reduce this disease but to con which affect the increase d food clothing and housing costs necessitating among the lower wage groups diminished quantity and quality and resultant uon are glan ns contributing causes A nation wide campaign against the disease and or for ejected and discharged suf fering from it Is planned through 1500 local societies of the national tuberculosis association |