TUBERCULOSIS IN GERMAN Y
“ALARMING SPREAD” URGENT MEASURES TO CHECK DISEASE ®w. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 18. “The German health authorities are Wong urgent measures, in spite of weir limited facilities, against the panning spread of tuberculosis,” says the Berlin correspondent of the Asioeiated Press. “Records show that there are nearly 20.000 known and indexed active cases the disease among a population made especially vulnerable by In addition there are *'-286 inactive cases indexed. "Tuberculosis causes 120 to 170 deaths ® week. Two hundred to 350 new teses are reported weekly. "The occupying Powers have ordered at least one general hospital in each zone to be converted into a sanatorium, Providing a total of 7000 beds for the isolation of infectious cases. : "A measure is under discussion for increasing the low scale of rations allowed sick persons.”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 7
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136TUBERCULOSIS IN GERMANY Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 7
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