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Show SPIRIT IN TUBERCULOSIS WAR Nineteen Million Dollars Expended Last Year In right Against tha Draad White Plague. Nearly $19,000,000 waa spent la tha ami tuberculosis campaign In tha United Btates during tha year 1912. ac cording to tha fourth annual statist!-cal statist!-cal statement of expenditures In thla movement taaued by tha National As-aoclatlon As-aoclatlon for the 8tudy and Prevention of .Tubarculoala. Tha expenditures during the year (or aanatorlum and hospital conatructlon and treatment make the largest ataxia Item in the total, amounting to nearly tlC.800,000. Thla la an Increaae of nearly $5,000,. 000 over the same group ot expenditures expendi-tures for the year 1911. The antl-tubarculoala antl-tubarculoala aaioclatlona and commit-teea commit-teea apent over $705,000, white dispensaries dis-pensaries and tuberculosis clinics apent over 1500,000. Over $415,000 was spent for the maintenance and establishment of open-air achool and fresh air classes, which Is more than double the amount apent for thla pur-pole pur-pole In 1911. Official, state and municipal mu-nicipal expenditures outside of the maintenance ot Institutions, which are Included In the other totals, amounted amount-ed to $280,000. In addition to these figures, about $500,000 was spent by hospitals for Insane and penal Institutions Insti-tutions In caring (or their tuberculosis Inmates. |
