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Show MEET IN CONGRESS AT ROME International Gathering of Foes of Tuberculosis Tu-berculosis to Be Held Late in September. Official announcement of the Seventh International Congress on Tuberculosis, Tuberculo-sis, which will include representatives from every civilized country in the world, has been made by the National Association for the Study and Prevention Preven-tion of Tuberculosis. The congress will be held In Rome from September 24 to 30, 1911, and will be similar in manvj respects to that held In Washington Wash-ington in the fall of 1908. The congress, con-gress, which meets every three years, will be under, the direct patronage of the king and queen of Italy. An American committee of 100 will be appointed as the official representatives represen-tatives of the United States. Meanwhile Mean-while the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis is acting in that capacity and its office In New York will be the headquarters for the United States delegation. The! secretary general of the congress is Prof. Vittorio Ascoll of Rome. As a direct result of the stimulus of the last international congress held in this country, the American committee will be able to report that the number of tuberculosis agencies in this country coun-try have been tripled in the three jears. More than twice as much money is being spent in the fight against tuberculosis by private societies socie-ties and Institutions, and the appropriations appropri-ations of federal, state, municipal and county have increased nearly four-fould. four-fould. It Is estimated that nearly ?15,-000,000 ?15,-000,000 will be spent in anti-tuberculosis work in 1910. |