The Tuberculosis Congress.
. OPENED IN PARIS, PAPER ON CURE OE CONSUMP HON. Paris, October -1. President Loubert opened to-day nt Paris the International Congress in regardito tuberculosis. Sixty foreign delegates are included amongst nearly three thousand delegates present. Mr Theodore Williams, consulting physician at the hospital for consumption, Brompton, stated that in England the per centago of deaths from tuberculosis had decreased by two-thirds in fifty 3 ears. Dr Williams declared that in order to light tuberculosis successfully it was necessary not only to fight the Ivocli bacillus, but the modes of life which lay the human body open to! attacks from bacilli, such as contagion, povorty, unhealthy dwellings, badly ventilated factories, damp soil and alcoholism.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42788, 7 October 1905, Page 2
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116The Tuberculosis Congress. Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42788, 7 October 1905, Page 2
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