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Show Tuberculosis Afflicts Japanese. Consumption among Japanese laborers labor-ers is increasing to such a degree that the figures are becoming a source of anxiety to Japanese merchants and officials. of-ficials. A large percentage of laborers labor-ers who are sent back to Japan by the Japanese charity associations are consumptives. It is claimed by the Japanese newspapers comenting on this matter that through the lack of hospital accommodations in the Japanese Jap-anese labor camps tuberculosis increases in-creases at an alarming rate. They 6uggest that a new system be employed em-ployed in dealing with the sick in these camps, as the Japanese are quite ignorant of even the most simple sim-ple health safeguard's. |