Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-22 | Page 1 | Nearly All City Residents Have T. B. Doctor Says

NEARLY ALL CITY j RESIDENTS HAVE T. B., DOCTOR SAYS ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 22. Ihe people of the United States are gravely menaced by the continued con-tinued spread of tuberculosis, according to speakers at the an-I an-I nual convention of the National Tuberculosis association. I The association is planning a 'nation-wide fight against the disease Dr. Victor C. Vaughn, of the University of Michigan, presi- ' dent of the association, asserted that "nearly 100 per cent of the adult inhabitants" of our cities are already infected with tuberculosis." tuber-culosis." Living conditions must be bettered to improve the situation, situa-tion, the speaker said, and this jean only be effected by the migration, mi-gration, of the masses to the rural ru-ral districts. o