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Show Good Work Proceeds Slowly. At the present rate of increase nearly near-ly forty-five years must elapse before sufficient hospital accommodations to provide for all the indigent consumptives consump-tives in the United States will be provided, pro-vided, declares the National Association Associa-tion for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Although over 7,000 beds in hospitals, sanatoria, camps and wards for tuberculous patients were established last year, there are fully 300,000 indigent consumptives who ought to be placed in such institutions institu-tions and a total of only 22,720 beds in the entire country. On May 1, 1909, there were 15,244 beds for consump. tives and 294 institutions. The annual report of the national associatiou shows an increase of 99 institutions and 7,500 beds. |