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Show West No Place for Consumptives. Physicians In all of the eawteni etutes will be Hnkeil by the Natioihi Ansoi hit Ion for the Study ami Pr vent Ion of Tuberculosis to stop oend lug coiiHiiiuptiveN in the last slimes o! tulicrctiloflu and without suftlcleni fundi! to the soiithweaW-rn part of tlr ('tilted SlHlen In search of health While It Is Impossible to tell accu rately how many consumptives then are at preaeiit living in the states o Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona, soulh ern California, and weHtern Texan, I is probable that no lens than ten pe cent of the ti.ono.ono people In thli territory have tulierculohln themselves i or have come to the west becauw some members of their family havi bud It. l-'.ery year, the health author! t it estimate, not lean than lii.tmi consunipt Ivea, hopelessly diseased i come west to die. For these cases the climate of tli section of the conn i try cm do nothing, and they are com pelleil to die In strange siirriiiini1 and llioiisunds of miles from hmm and f i lends. The National Asfoi-'a tlim points out further that from l to till per cent, of these advance) cases are too poor to provide tin proper necessailes of life, and the: . are either starved to death, or com i pelled to accept th$ meager chat'lt: i which thin part of the country al fords. |