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Show To Push Fight Against Tuberculosis. Contrasted with the rapid progress which the anti-tuberculosis campaign has made, the National Association foi the Study and Prevention of Tubercu losis points out that at the present time there is still need for at leasl 100,000 hospital beds for Indigent consumptives con-sumptives in the advanced stages ol the disease who must be segregated il tuberculosis is to be kept from bpread ing. Another 100,000 beds in sanatoria for tuberculosis patients, who are in the early .? curable stages of the disease, dis-ease, are needed. In addition to this large bed provision, the national association asso-ciation affirms that visiting nurses, tuberculosis clinics and open ail schools should be established In almost al-most every city and town of the United Uni-ted States. Furthermore, the present campaign contemplates the continuous education of practically the entire population of the United States, amounting to 90,000,000 people, and the extension of the campaign of organization or-ganization already in effect to take in every state, city and town of the country. |