Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1929, Page 6

N Decline, Is Seen in Washing- ton, but Several Large ‘- Cities Report Gains. ‘Where Washington stands in relation to the Nation-wide fight against tuber- culosis, as shown by figures collected from the health departments of 38 o1’ the Jarger cities of ‘the Natlon, was brought out yesterday, in.s statement sponsored ' by Dr. George M. Kober, president of the.local Tubertulosis As- sociation ~ and hoxrqtrfixy.':hnmhn_y of the committee for the. early-diagnosis campaign, now in progress. :: .: “While it is true;” sald Dr. Kober; “the : tuberculosis death ‘rate for:the country at large declined slightly “dur- Ing 1928, ‘very,little hegdway ,against the disease was-made in several cities and in others’ there was actuaily An increase in-the death rate. In ihe 38 cities with "a/, population of more than 28.000.000 - there - were reperted 24,471’ deaths from tuberculosis Jast year, or 430:rfore than in the preoed- | ing.’ year. Bt ‘with. the. increase. in population“the mortality rate remained at 87.4 per 109,000 population. - Diéclirie. Shown. Here, . .~ “Comparing & few of ‘the larger cities, we find ‘in; New York’City, the rate per 100,000 popidation went up "At our TUBEREILIR EATH TEDEERESES “Ieline, the fall in the lhlfie being. 6 per large | for the asking at the headquarters of Service from 86 to 89; in Chicago, from 83 to ¢ of B o : cent; pse\l;flfln 10 per cent; Newark, 5 per cent;. Kansas City, 15 per cent; Indianepolis. -i3 per cent; St. Paul, 3 per cent; Atlanta, 8 per cent, and Bir« mingham; 13 per cent. . “Washington, however, has remained in the list of those cities Where the tu- berculosis death rate continued to de- cent, as compared witl 3 per cent in Boston, 9 per cent in Mil- waukee, 19 per cent in Minneapolis, 17 Fer cent in Portland, Ore.; 3 per cent in Rochester, N. ¥.; 1 per cent in .3 11 _per cent in Denver, 26 per cent Houston, 21 per cent in San Artonio and 15 per cent in Omaha. “We have also received advance in- formation as to the proportionate death rate from this disease among the col- ored population, which was about 25 per cent- of .the total,” Dr: Kober draws attention to the fact ‘that in the local tuberculosis clinic during the past year, out of 221 per- sons examined, only 65 cases were in the ‘early or incipient stages of ‘the disease, while 111 were moderately ad- vanced and 45 far advanced. 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