TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS.
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING, By telegraph, Press Asa'n, Copyright Received 12.15 a.m., Oct. 4. - ; Paris, Oct. 3. President Loubet opened the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Paris. Sixty foreiga delegates were included amongst nearly 8000 soientistß attending. Dr Theodoro Williams, consulting physician of the-Hospital for Consumptives at Brompton, stated that in England the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis had decreased two-thirds jn fifty years. ' f i Beceived 1.7 a m., 0ct. 1 4.
Dr. Williams doolared that in order to' fight tuberculosis successfully it was necessary not only to fight the Kooh bacillus, but the modes of life which lay the human body open to attacks of bacilli, suoh as contagion, poverty, unhealthy dwellings, badly ventilated factories, damp soil, and alcoholism,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1575, 4 October 1905, Page 2
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