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Show TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS, f Washington. Sept. 16. Olficlal announcement an-nouncement that the seventh International Inter-national conference on Tuberculosis will be held In Rome. Italy, Septcm-. her 24 and 30, 1011. was made today to-day from the headquarters of the national na-tional association for the stndy and prevention of tuberculosis. Tho congress, con-gress, which meets every three yeurs, was lust held In Washington, in 190-S. It Is expected an American committee commit-tee of one hundred w ill be appointed I as the official body representing the United States. Estimating the present pres-ent rate ol Increase, the national association as-sociation announces that the American Ameri-can committee will be able to give a most flattering report at the congress. con-gress. They will be able to announce that the number of anti-tuberculosis agencies In the United States has tripled trip-led in three years; that more than twice as much money is being spent in the fight against consumption by private societies and institutions and j that the appropriations for consumption consump-tion work by federal, state, ruunlcl- I pal and other authorities haxo quadrupled. |