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Show MORE HOSPITALS ARE NEEDED Situation Improved, but Further Vork Is Needed to Stamp Out Tuberculosis. Only four states, Mississippi, Nevada, Ne-vada, Utah and Wyoming, have no beds whatever in special hospitals or wards tor consumptives. Eight years ago when the National Association foi (he Study and Prevention o Tubercu iosis was organized, there were 26 states in which no hospital or sanito-rium sanito-rium provision for consumptives existed, exist-ed, and the entire number of beds in the United States was only 10,000. "While these figures would indicate a remarkable growth in anti-tuberculosis activity," says Dr. Livingston Farrand, executive secretary of the J National association, in commenting I on the subject, there are still prac- r " tically ten indigent consumptives for every one of the 30,000 beds, including those for pay patients. In other words, ve have lro:n 250.000 to 300,000 consumptives con-sumptives in this country too poor to provide hospital care for themselves. If tuberculosis is ever going to be stamped .out in the United States, more hospital provision for these foci of infection must be provided." |