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Show Good Work Proceeds Slowly. At tho present rate of Increase nearly near-ly forty-flvo years must elnpso before sufficient hospital accommodations to provide for all tho indigent consumptives consump-tives In tho United States will bo provided, pro-vided, declares the Natlonnl Association Associa-tion for tho Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Although over 7,000 bods In hospitals, sanatoria, camps and wardB for tuberculous patients wero established last year, thero nro fully 300,000 indigent consumptives who ought to bo placed In such Institutions Institu-tions nnd a. total of only 22,720 beds In tho entire country. On May 1, 1909, there wero 15,244 beds for consumn. tlves and 294 Institutions, Tho annual report of tho national association shows nn Increase of 99 Institutions and 7,500 beds. |