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dated February 5, 1954: From the Editorial

That about five million Indians suffer from tuberculosis, half a million dying every year, is terrible enough. But even more tragic in its consequences is the indubitable fact that the majority of the victims are between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. The Tuberculosis Association of India, with State and public help, has been waging a gallant fight on a very wide front against this insidious disease.

India's Public Health Minister, in a message to the Eleventh Session of the All-India Tuberculosis Workers' Conference, has drawn attention to the work done by the hundred and odd B.C.G. teams in the country which have tested 25 million and vaccinated nine million persons.

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