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Show oo GREATEST PERIL Tuberculosis, Problem of Nations Na-tions in War Zone 500,-000 500,-000 Cases in France. NEW YORK, April 12. Tuberculosis is tho greatest disease peril of modern mod-ern warfare, says Dr. Hermann Biggs, state commissioner of health, who has just returned from an exhaustive study of the problem in France. Dr. Biggs was sent by tho Rockefeller Institute In-stitute at the invitation of tho French government. In a speech last night at a dinner of the Society of Alumni of Bellevue hospital, ho said: "Soldiers are not riving in the open air in tents, where conditions would be favorable to thoso with weak lungs, but are In the trenches, living In dugouts dug-outs or huddled together in villages not far from tho firing line." He estimated that between thirty and forty per cent of the Fronch prisoners pris-oners who have returned from Germany Ger-many suffer from tuberculosis. There aro 150,000 cases of the disease In the French army and from 400,000 to 500,-000 500,-000 cases In France today, ho asserts. "What is true of France, I understand," under-stand," said Dr Biggs, "is also true of Austria-Hungary and Russia." no |