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Show WHITE PLAGUE Berlin, Aug 24 Recent progress i in the world-wide fight against tuberculosis tu-berculosis will be clearly set forth at the eleventh international anti-tuberculosis conference, to be held this vear In Berlin from October 22 to 26. One evidence will be the attendance. attend-ance. Twenty-eight states will be represented by delegates, and although al-though no "cure" for tuberculosis can be reported, encouraging p-ojsross will be recorded toward the control of the disease by natural restorative means, food and fresh air. and by modern methods of sanitation, disinfection disin-fection and Isolation Dr. F. F. Fricdmann has not applied ap-plied for a place on the program and, according to one member of the committee com-mittee of arrangements, none would have been given him hnd he done so, the German experts being more than eer skeptical and Insistent on the submission of the Frledmann 6erum to the conventional tests before taking tak-ing the doctor's pretentions seriously The American visitors to the conference confer-ence will, however, have opportunity to see the patients on whom Dr. Friedmann based his original claims of BUCCMI, eighteen months to two years after treatment was begun, and to Judge how hl3 claims have been born out by time The delegates wolll find that Germany Ger-many has made substantial progress, since the first of these conferences in 1902, In reducing the terrors of consumption. From tho reports of 348 cities of more than 15.000 population popu-lation each. It appears that the yearly year-ly death rate from tuberculosis was reduced from 22.26 per 10.000 population popula-tion in 1905, to 17.30 in 1911. For the whole kingdom of Prussia the rate for 1912 was only 14.49. The reduction re-duction has been particularly rapid In hospitals and homes for consumptives, consump-tives, having dropped within sixteen years from 31 to 12 In penitentiaries penitentiar-ies and Jails, formerly regarded as breeding centere for tuberculosis diseases, dis-eases, the mortality is now only about one-sixteenth of what It was some fifteen years ago. |