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Show JAIL MEANS DEATH. In many states, fortunately not in Utah, a jail sentence means an ultimate death sentence. That there are 12,000 tuberculosis prisoners in the state, federal and local prisons and jail3 of the United States, with less than twenty-five special institutions and hardly 800 beds for their treatment, are some of the charges made by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. From several investigations that have been made it is estimated that on an average about 15 per cent of the prison population is afflicted af-flicted with tuberculosis. On this basis, out of the 80,000 prisoners housed in the penal institutions of continental United States at any given time, not less than 12,000 are infected with this disease. If the Philippine islands and other insular possessions were taken into consideration, con-sideration, the number would be much larger. Some of the prisons of Pennsylvania, Kansas and Ohio show such shocking conditions as regards tuberculosis that many wardens admit that these places of detention are death traps. Those who think lightly of the fight against the great white plague should consider these facts carefully and help those disinterested disinter-ested humanitarians who are trying to relieve distress. |