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Show SICK SOLDIERS IK WEST Hundreds Infected With Tuberculosis on Way Says Health Speaker CHKVE.VXK, Wy.j. Sept liT.. That hiiudrcds of ill.schartred Foldlers Infect- r 1 with tuberculosis air pouring Into the west from tho east and aie be-coming be-coming an increasins menace to western west-ern stales, was the opinion i-xpi ssi-d hc-re yMterday by ir. .i N' Walhicej oi the iuhr rculosls section of the I"nlte, Statr.s public health service at I 1 1 r Ur VValloea expressed his views at the tubocculosls corifereme here The conference derided tinnnt rnousl) to hold it. i next meetliiK in Salt Lake. I: Wallace in elaborating his point, made some startling statements relative rela-tive to the increase of tuberculosis in the west Discharged soldiers, c-irry-Ipf: the infection, he said ure coining coin-ing and local authorities hnve no means of knowing who they are, R'hetper or tiot they are Infected, or of :..klng irecautions :-jr:iln:U spread of ) tlla i from these many sources. m September i, according to Dr. Wallace, there were over 5000 "open ' ?ases of tuberculosis In the military Ustrlct which Includes l"tnh. The neii. he declared, were Kolnir to work n farms and into the mini .s and mills. ;.uh is a center for the spread of the lis o and the resulting menace to Ubllc health will last for many years. Janus j?. Wain executive secre- nry of the I tah Publl. Health assocta-lon. assocta-lon. was one of the speakers at the inference, takinir as his subject 'How Seeiin. I'ulile.itv for PuPIk H.;lIUi York. ' |