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ACCOBDING to an editorial in the August issue of the Statistical Bulletin of New York, tuberculosis is already on the increase in other countries than the United States, although the evidence is based only on provisional or fragmentary data. In England and Wales the death–rate among male civilians rose slightly in 1939 and in 1940 in both sexes. For males the death–rate from tuberculosis rose 13 per cent between 1939 and 1940 from 77.1 per 100,000 to 87.4; for females the increase was 7 per cent from 50.9 to 64.7. In Scotland the deaths from tuberculosis in 1940 increased 14 per cent over 1939, and the death–rate in 1940 was the highest since 1932. In Canada the mortality from tuberculosis did not rise in 1940, but there was a signiiicant increase for the first half of 1941. In Germany and the occupied countries statistics on tuberculosis are not available. As regards France, a sharp increase in the disease has been reported from Vichy. The longer the War lasts and the farther it extends the greater will be the increase in tuberculosis, as is shown by the War of 1914—18, particularly among the women and children in Germany, Belgium, and eastern and south–eastern Europe, and to a less degree among the neutral countries.
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Tuberculosis and War. Nature 148, 748–749 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148748d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148748d0