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Show PHTHISIS AS DEADLY AS WAR Expert Says That in Four Years It Has Killed as Many as Have Died in Battle. The war liiis served effectually to disclose that during the four years of hostilities mortality from tuberculosis in the civilian population and in the armies of all the countries enframed has nt least approximated the total number of soldiers killed in battle, according to Dr. Livingstone Farrand. As director direc-tor of the American commission for the prevention of tuberculosis in France loctor Karrand will resume his work overseas wilhin a. few days. He returned to the United States for graduation exercises of the University of Colorado, of which he is president. "To make our country really safe for democracy we must first make it healthy." is the slogan Doctor Karrand suggests. Of the men called to the colors In this country's first draft summons 50,-0(1(1 50,-0(1(1 were found to be tubercular, his appeal slates. This, It declares, Is one of the striking indications of the prevalence prev-alence of tlie disease in the United States. |