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...reservations and information see your friendly travel agent. For booklets, maps, etc. write Dept. TB, Box 221, New York...
...afford to look at the players objectively, since their idyosyncrasies are to be laughed at, not pitied, and their conscious humor to be enjoyed. For the audience, there is no possible emotional involvement with Maugham characters; they are on display only. Thus, when Maugham introduces a sentimental romance between TB victims in "Sanatorium," the audience is uncomfortable, as all along it has been concerned with characters and not with tormented souls. An audience must be in a sentimental mood before tears can be shed...
...fairer chance to make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations, has injected some 14 million people with the TB vaccine. Their fond hope is that the vaccinations have cut tuberculosis morbidity* by four-fifths. Only time and a careful check on the health of a whole new generation will prove...
...Britain, vaccination with BCG has been adopted by the Ministry of Health as an official preventive measure against TB. A major fear among many U.S. doctors, who have thus far not been able to make up their minds about it, is that universal acceptance of the vaccine might lead the public to neglect other preventive measures, most importantly the constant effort to track down the disease by widespread X-ray chest examination...
...Morbidity and mortality are specialized doctors' words to describe the ravages of disease. Morbidity means the number of sick, mortality the number of dead. For years doctors in the U.S. and Britain have been puzzling over a paradox in the morbidity and mortality rates of tuberculosis: while TB mortality has declined fairly steadily, morbidity has been rising. One possible explanation: doctors have become sharper-eyed in detecting new cases...