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Show BBBf J "New England is laying great stress on the HHBi fact that the ratio of deaths from tuberculosis in IHKh, h that region has decreased 50 per cent in the last BBB f l' ' twenty years, but there are three causes for it, BBe i neither one of which ought to be an encourage- vgBJBfcfc ment to that region. First, the masses of the people eat better and richer food than they formerly for-merly did; second, a great many of those whose lungs are delicate move away, but the last and greatest cause of all is that the stock of the people peo-ple has greatly ohanged. More than half the people peo-ple are foreigners or the immediate descendants of foreigner. More than half the modern New Englanders Are Irish, German and French Canadians Cana-dians among whom there is no hereditary taint of consumption. |
