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Show Churches and Tuberculosis. Statistics showing how serious a problem tuberculosis is to the ordinary ordi-nary church congregation have been issued by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Tuber-culosis. From reports received from over '725 churches, with a membership of over 312,000 communicants of twenty denominations, and from 208 cities and towns in 12 states in various vari-ous parts of the country, out of nearly 7,000 deaths in 1910, over 700 or 10 per cent., were caused by tuberculosis. This means 2.24 deaths for every thousand thou-sand members or communicants. While the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis compared with other diseases dis-eases is not higher in the churches, according to these figures, than in the country at large, the tuberculosis death rate, as shown by the church returns, is higher per thousand communicants com-municants than that for the general population in the registration area of the United States, which the census bureau gave as 1.67 in 1909. |