Show T B chief death cause among younger people although medicine and allied sciences have forged ahead in methods of treatment tuberculosis rema remains ins the chief contributor to the death rate among persons 21 to 35 in the united states dr dean A dark clark national institute of health surgeon told members of the health division council of social agencies washington has the highest tuberculosis death rate it in the country dr dark clark said and is also the highest in venereal infections among cities of population or more throughout the country 40 persons out of every white and from the same number in the negro population died from the disease but in Wits washington hington 89 deaths for every white population were reported dr dark clark declared in the district of columbia there is also an urgent need for the addition of a mental hygiene branch to the health department he said there is no branch of medicine in the district which is so inaccessible to the low income group speaking of accidental blindness dr dark clark said mishaps that occur in in the home are the largest single cause of blindness poor housing conditions were present in 32 pe per r cent of the cases reported |