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Show FEMALE VICTIMS OF PLAGUE FlQures Show That Tuberculosis Is Spreading, Chicly Among Women Active in Industrial World. The donth rnte from tuberculosis iinionK women Is on the liicrense. In I spile of the Increase In active cuses uniting women the death rale for males Ih Mill higher than that for female by almost onc-thinl. "The Riiihlen In-Mux In-Mux of women Into Industry during the war may, In a measure, be re j sponsible for this Increase," says a i Htatemeiif from the National Tuberculosis Tubercu-losis association. "This does nt mean that there Is nny real basis for the assumption that women are not as well lilted for Industrial work us men are. It Is a fact, however, that many vomen who work In Industry also look after their household duties nnd brliij? tip larj;p families of children. Consequently, Conse-quently, Insnlliclent rest, linpnierly cooked foid ami lack of frtish air no undermine the constitution that they readily become victims of the tubercle buclllus. |