is this to be wondered at in the United States, whose people are distinguished by alertness, learning, and concern for health. In our present age we see that tuberculosis stands foremost among the social health problems at which the heart of the whole world trembles—especially after this grinding war which, like most wars, led to the formation of the conditions that prepare the seeds of this disease to grow.

The civilized world today is trying its utmost to put an end to this social calamity: its scientists devote themselves wholly to carrying out experiments, studies, and precise statistics, in the hope of arriving at a complete grasp of its causes, so that they may be enabled to confront it and prevent its spread.

We may read or hear, from time to time, that effective remedies have been prepared for the cure of this disease. The truth is that medicine has not to this day succeeded in devising a precious drug on which one can rely and from which the hoped-for cure may be expected. To triumph over this White Plague we have but one means: to detect it the moment it arises and to pursue it by technical methods—that is, to hasten to prompt diagnosis and speedy treatment. This is the great and only weapon to which we can resort so far, and its importance lies not merely in that it checks the advance of this disease, but in that it reaches to uprooting it finally from the human race.

And this disease of tuberculosis, like other epidemics, has its flarings and its lulls, its flood and its ebb, its shrinking and its spreading... and the extent of these manifestations depends on the nature of the circumstances that come over society and over individuals. Long wars, which bring privation upon people, are—beyond dispute—among the chief causes of its taking root and flaring up. The proofs of that are plain: the problem of tuberculosis during the First World War and after it was among the most tangled problems and the

bitterest calamities that faced the civilized world. In the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, the commanders of the French army returned one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers stricken with tuberculosis to civilian life. And how many thousands of prisoners returned to their countries stricken with this grievous disease! All the European peoples—belligerent and neutral alike—knew the extent of the great increase in tubercular deaths after the First World

War... And history repeated itself in the Second World War, under whose burdens we still groan.

In the nations overrun by German oppression, tuberculosis spread among the inhabitants on the widest scale; and the cause of it was nothing but privation, fatigue, misery, and the crowding together in camps and prisons lacking many of the means of health—or rather deprived of them all.

"In the coming issue: Our stand toward this disease"

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