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Tuberculosis in the German Army

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 29.

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Tuberculosis in the German Army

So PREVALENT has consumption become in the German army that it is now proposed to inoculate all recruits with Dr. Koch's tuberculin in order to ascertain whether they are afflicted with tuberculosis to any extent. According to Dr. Klimowitz, a Prussian army surgeon, thousands are taken into the army every year who have latent tuberculosis, which develops rapidly as a result of the active life they are compelled to live in the barracks.